Book of Donmon Teith

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 hap

The inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the course of economic and social disintegration. In order to captu

Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Sovi

Excerpt from Soviet Economy in the 1980s, Vol. 2: Problems and Prospects; Selected Papers Submitted to the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United Stat