USSR in Crisis

By Marshall I. Goldman

Book Overview

In virtually all sectors of the economy, evidence of stagnation, waste, and mismanagement proliferates. The convergence of these problems is no historical accident. As Marshall Goldman. a leading analyst of the Soviet economy, demonstrates, the Russians continue to adhere to a planning model set forth by Stalin in the 1920s. The chances of a turnaround, therefore, hinge on reform of the system--reform that the Soviet leaders fear might trigger unpredictable and uncontrollable forces that have been pent up for sixty-five years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039395336X
• ISBN13: 9780393953367
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Predicted the collapse of USSR

Published in 1983,this study predicted that the Stalinist model of economic and political development would lead to doom for USSR if it held to its existing course.