Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in unresolvable contradiction and eventual sclerosis.


Format Inbunden Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2024-06-11 ISBN 9780674240995