Perestroika in Perspective : : The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition / / Padma Desai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Desai, Padma,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Updated
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 950
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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 away with the Soviet Union's long-term economic malaise. Focusing on the key areas of industry, agriculture, services, and foreign trade, she discusses specific blueprints for change and evaluates the possibilities for their success. Skillfully combining charts, photographs, cartoons, and "es, this book offers a unique and coherent view of the strategy underlying Gorbachev's reform efforts to date--and does so gracefully and with sparkle, in terms completely understandable to the layperson.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Why Reforms? -- CHAPTER TWO. The Legacy of the Economic Malaise -- CHAPTER THREE. The Reforms: Their Design -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Likelihood of Success: 1965 versus Now -- CHAPTER FIVE. Introducing Markets: A Faulty Design -- CHAPTER SIX. Changing the "Superstructure": Beyond Economic Reforms -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Foreign Policy: New Thinking and Initiatives -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Strategy of Reform -- CHAPTER NINE. How Long Will Gorbachev Last? -- CHAPTER TEN. Perestroika: Retrospect and Prospect -- APPENDIX ONE. Illustrating the Economic Reform and Its Inadequacy -- APPENDIX TWO. Political Structure and Election Procedures -- Notes -- Reference -- Index