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In December 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--born in
violent revolution and dominated for more than six decades by
highly authoritarian rule--was dissolved by its constituent
republics. The causes for this remarkable event will be probed for
many years to come. Our understanding of it may never be complete.
Nevertheless, it is evident even now that part of the story lay in
a conscious redirection of policy by specific individuals. Those at
the center of political and economic power understood the flaws in
their system well enough to initiate a process of reform, but one
that triggered a more massive transformation than they had
intended. The process has left enormous turmoil in this wake.
Political power has dissipated in all the new states emerging from
the fragmented former USSR, and all are struggling to establish
some constitutional order. They do so under conditions of severe
austerity as they seed to reconstruct their once integrated, highly
concentrated, internationally isolated economy into independent
instruments of national viability. With no detailed blueprint
available, and with only fractured mechanisms of policy control at
their disposal, these new nations are being carried along by the
inertia of state enterprises and by a spontaneous process or
regeneration at the grass-roots level. This book, which analyzes
Gorbachev's foreign economic strategy, provides a window for
understanding the disintegrative forces that stymied his reforms
and eventually defeated him, undermining the country he sought to
preserve. Gorbachev was committed to ending Soviet isolation from
the world economy and at the same time saving Soviet socialism.
Ironically, it is the destructionof Soviet socialism and the
emergence of new post-Soviet states, that has begun to break down
the isolationist barriers erected over the last seven decades. This
book documents the incredibly complex legacies that Russia and the
other new post-Soviet states face as they see to integrate
themselves into the global economy.
The momentous changes in the Soviet Union brought about by
glasnost' and perestroyka have far-reaching implications that
continue to grip the attention of the international community. This
volume and its companion volume, The Economy, feature research and
analysis of the significant events in the development of the
revolutionary reforms in the Soviet Union-from the beginning stage,
through the period of great euphoria, to the recent troubled times.
Ed A. Hewitt, founding editor of Soviet Economy and formerly a
senior fellow at Brookings, is now Special Assistant to the
President on National Security Affairs and Senior Director of
Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council. Victor H. Winston
is an adjunct professor of international affairs at George Mason
University and coeditor of Soviet Economy.
"In this book, Ed A. Hewett provides a detailed, scholarly guide
that analyzes Soviet economic reforms. "
The momentous changes in the Soviet Union brought about by
glasnost' and perestroyka have far-reaching implications that
continue to grip the attention of the international community. This
volume and its companion volume, Politics and People, feature
research and analysis of the significant events in the development
of the revolutionary reforms in the Soviet Union--from the
beginning stage, through the period of great euphoria, to the
recent troubled times.
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