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... tive top - level support , each challenge to bureaucratic inertia " had to be guided through so great a volume of paperwork as to drive out the taste for changes of even the most optimistically inclined execu- tives . . . . The ...
... tive top - level support , each challenge to bureaucratic inertia " had to be guided through so great a volume of paperwork as to drive out the taste for changes of even the most optimistically inclined execu- tives . . . . The ...
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... tive and state farms . What is fascinating about the present - day Soviet Union is the simultaneous eruption of these symptoms of regression and of afflictions of the opposite sort . As the leaders have known for some time , the very ...
... tive and state farms . What is fascinating about the present - day Soviet Union is the simultaneous eruption of these symptoms of regression and of afflictions of the opposite sort . As the leaders have known for some time , the very ...
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... tive way the situation and their personal roles in it , to speak the bit- ter truth . " There could be no room for " zones immune from criti- cism , " Yel'tsin claimed , or for bosses who " put themselves forward as miracle - workers ...
... tive way the situation and their personal roles in it , to speak the bit- ter truth . " There could be no room for " zones immune from criti- cism , " Yel'tsin claimed , or for bosses who " put themselves forward as miracle - workers ...
Contents
Brezhnevs Ambiguous Legacy | 6 |
What Ails the Soviet System? | 32 |
Succession and the Changing Soviet Elite | 68 |
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