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

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 th...

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