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... perestroika , it also initially enlarged its control over the old bureaucratic ministries that were already collapsing under the weight of impotence . Yet this middle stratum was not neces- sarily a democratic force , for in attempting ...
... perestroika , it also initially enlarged its control over the old bureaucratic ministries that were already collapsing under the weight of impotence . Yet this middle stratum was not neces- sarily a democratic force , for in attempting ...
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... perestroika organized by independent republics , was destined to undermine all existing Soviet institutions save those rooted in community traditions - this last force to lead towards the minute balkanization of the former Soviet system ...
... perestroika organized by independent republics , was destined to undermine all existing Soviet institutions save those rooted in community traditions - this last force to lead towards the minute balkanization of the former Soviet system ...
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... PERESTROIKA THAT WAS NOT Gorbachev's brand of perestroika had been centrally planned and had not promised to weaken the apparat - the skein of ties between party bosses , enterprise managers , and Gosplan bureaucrats beholden to the ...
... PERESTROIKA THAT WAS NOT Gorbachev's brand of perestroika had been centrally planned and had not promised to weaken the apparat - the skein of ties between party bosses , enterprise managers , and Gosplan bureaucrats beholden to the ...
Contents
Tsar and Soviet | 17 |
The Success and Failure of the Soviet Economy | 65 |
HISTORY WITHOUT END | 107 |
Copyright | |
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