Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform

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.

• | Author: Yakov Feygin
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 11, 2024
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674240995
• | ISBN-10: 0674240995