As the present writer, among others, has argued elsewhere, under traditional Soviet
socialism the views of professional economists were hardly of any relevance for the …

One of the most noteworthy features of MS Gorbachev's 'Political Report'to the 27th
Congress was its stress on the centrality of the economic factor in national power. As …

Since spring 1985 a warm wind of change has begun to envelop the Soviet Union, raising
the prospect that the country's immensely large and highly centralised institutional structure …

The Gorbachev economic reforms adopted in the summer of 1987 and instituted as from the
start of 1988 contain inherent contradictions and ambiguities and may lead either to a far …

César Albuquerque1 f the prominent world leaders who marked the twentieth century,
Mikhail Gorbachev is perhaps one of the most controversial. Although in the West he is …

The immediate goals of economic recovery is to achieve a rate of economic growth that
makes it possible to simultaneously expand investments, meet military needs, and provide …

IN THE LAST year the Western press has given a great deal of publicity to the new attempts
at economic reform in the Soviet Union.“Gorbachev Sets Shift in Economy,”“Gorbachev's …

In hindsight, it appears remarkable that Mikhail Gorbachev could receive so much acclaim
for the economic policies that he pursued from 1985. From our current perspective, it …

HE current" crisis” of the Soviet system about which everybody has been talking must seem
very strange to an outside observer: there are mo starving crowds or dead bodies along the …

Ed A. Hewettl ikhail Gorbachev assumed the post of General Secretary of the M CPSU on
March 11, 1985, with an apparent mandate to forge a new economic strategy capable of …