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Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91 (Paperback)
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Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91 presents a
strikingly new view of the Gorbachev era and the reasons for the
collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by one of America's most
distinguished specialists on the former Soviet Union, this is the
first comprehensive overview of the Gorbachev period and describes
it as a real revolution, not mere " reform." According to Hough,
despite Mikhail Gorbachev's talk of a regulated market, he never
understood that a market must be created on a solid institutional
and legal base. He was determined to use democratization to free
himself from party control, but he saw democracy as a way of
achieving near- universal consensus, not a mechanism for forcing
through difficult choices. The many memoirs that have become
available in the last few years, including those of Gorbachev
himself, show that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov and the " bureaucrats"
in his government actually were the serious economic reformers in
the leadership. Gorbachev opposed the key transitional steps at
every stage and was far closer to the assumptions of shock therapy
than he or his opponents ever recognized. Hough explains that
Gorbachev was not alone in thinking that the destruction of old
institutions was enough to unleash a market. Westerners also talked
of leaping a chasm in a single jump as if democratic and market
institutions existed pre-created on the other side. But, precisely
because Gorbachev (and later Boris Yeltsin) was encouraged in all
his worst mistakes by Western advice, his failure has crucial
implications for Western thinking about the process of
democratization and marketization. This unprecedented book explores
those implications indepth. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding
Book for 1998
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