1st Edition

The Soviet Union 1917-1991

Edited By Aron Katsenelinboigen Copyright 1991
491 Pages
by Routledge

491 Pages
by Routledge

491 Pages
by Routledge

Political change in the Soviet Union never seemed more likely than in the period of glasnost and perestroika. The Soviet Union: 1917-1991 examines some of the less well explored areas of Soviet political and economic life to develop a feasible set of alternatives for future Soviet development and to establish which ones the system is predisposed to select.Katsenelinboigen takes on these difficult... Read more
Introduction BLOCK I. The Soviet Political System Part One: Russia’s Fearsome Past, Stormy Present, and Murky Future Part Two: The Russian-Soviet Empire Part Three: Nationalism BLOCK II. The Soviet Economic System Part Four: Soviet Economic Mechanisms Part Five: Conflicting Trends in Soviet Economics in the Post-Staiinist Era Part Six: Personalia

Biography

Aron J. Katsenelinboigen (1927-2005) was a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his graduate training in economics from Moscow State Institute and later taught at Moscow State University. He immigrated to the United States in 1973. Among his books in English are Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the U. S. S. R., Studies in Soviet Economic Planning, Some New Trends in Systems Theory, and Selected Topics in Indeterministic Systems.