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Hardback. New. Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political reforms, it raises intriguing and important questions: Are Gorbachev's ideas different from the Kosygin-Brezhnev reform of 1965 that came to naught? What kinds of problems do the Russians have in understanding the market system? Who opposes perestroika? Do Gorbachev's proposals threaten his own future as Soviet leader? How does perestroika relate to a more general environment of openness, of glasnost? What happened at the June 1988 Party Conference? And, above all, is the old order really giving way to a new one? Or does Gorbachev aim at "capitalist icing on a socialist cake"?. To answer these questions and others, Padma Desai, a distinguished pioneer in the modern econometric analysis of the Soviet economy, has distilled from Gorbachev's myriad decrees the outlines of his strategy for doing…
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Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition Hardcover - 2016
by Padma Desai
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"I found this book to be one of the most instructive and, at the same time, succinct, descriptions of the various aspects of perestroika. Especially admirable is Professor Desai's ability to combine highly professional economic analysis of the process with a general political and social picture of the Soviet Union and the problems it faces."--Adam B. Ulam, Harvard University
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- Title Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition
- Author Padma Desai
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 232
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2016-04-19
- ISBN 9780691631769 / 069163176X
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.42 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.947
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