The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

by Chris Miller

Book Overview

For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661535
• ISBN13: 9781469661537
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"