1st Edition
Origins of the Crisis in the U.S.S.R. Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System
By Hillel Ticktin
Copyright 1992
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hillel Ticktin has been one of the most controversial figures in Soviet studies for 25 years. His assertions that the Soviet economy was hopelessly inefficient, that the ruble was a sham, and that the elite was desperate once sounded outrageous. Ticktin consistently argued that perestroika would fail. In his view the USSR was and remained inherently Stalinist. It might lurch back and forth between... Read more
Origins of the Crisis in the USSR; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Aims and Achievements of Gorbachev; Chapter 2 Theory and Concepts; Chapter 3 The Nature of Social Control in the USSR; Chapter 4 The Nonpolitical Politics of the Soviet Elite; Chapter 5 The Intelligentsia; Chapter 6 The Working Class; Chapter 7 The Nature of the Soviet Political Economy; Chapter 8 The Present Economic Crisis in the USSR; Chapter 9 Perestroika and the Disintegration of the USSR; Chapter 10 Where Are We Going? The Nature of the Transitional Epoch;
Biography
Hillel Ticktin
