In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the
break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of
the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite.
Kagarlitsky shows that Western commentators have been misled by the
street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into
supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused
politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He analyses the
ill-considered and self-interested attempts made by the
nomenklatura to privatize assets and inaugurate a free-market
economy, finding an essential continuity between the plans of
Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's advisers. He reveals, too, how the new
Russian President has displayed a greater capacity to assert
dictatorial powers than did the last General Secretary, a tendency
which has brought him into repeated conflict with elected bodies.
Boris Kagarlitsky is himself a Socialist member of the Moscow
Soviet and one of the founders of Russia's new Party of Labour.The
Disintegration of the Monolith furnishes both a memorable
indictment of the greed and irresponsibility of Russia's new/old
rulers and a fascinating account of the slow but unmistakeable
awakening of forces of resistance as the peoples of Russia and the
other states of the former Soviet Union confront the
hyper-inflation, shortages, unemployment and general havoc wreaked
by the free-market experiment. Kagarlitsky describes the gradual
emergence of a new Russian trade unionism, but warns that popular
discontent is also being exploited by nationalist demagogues, such
as the leader of Russia's new Liberal Party. For those seeking to
understand what has changed in Russia - and what has remained the
same - The Disintegration of the Monolith is required reading.
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