Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition

by Padma Desai

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069163176X
• ISBN13: 9780691631769
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"