1st Edition
The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991
By Philip Hanson
Copyright 2003
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the... Read more
List of tables. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Editorial Foreword. Introduction. 1. The Starting Point: the Stalinist Economic System and the Aftermath of War. 2. Khruschev: Home Rewarded, 1953-60. 3. Khruschev: Things Fall Apart, 1960-64. 4. A New Start: Brezhnev, 1964-73. 5. The 'Era of Stagnation': 1973-82. 6. Three Funerals and a Coronation: November 1982-March 1985. 7. Gorbachev and Catastrioka. 8. The End-game, 1989-91. 9. The Soviet Economy in Retrospect. Bibliography. Index.
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Philip Hanson
