Is the Soviet Union over?
John Lloyd, 27 September 1990
Moving the Mountain: Inside the Perestroika Revolution
by Abel Aganbegyan, translated by Helen Szamuely.
Bantam, 248 pp., £14.95, October 1989,0 593 01818 4 Show More
by Abel Aganbegyan, translated by Helen Szamuely.
Bantam, 248 pp., £14.95, October 1989,
Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform: The Soviet Reform Process
by Anders Aslund.
Pinter, 219 pp., £35, May 1989,0 86187 008 5 Show More
by Anders Aslund.
Pinter, 219 pp., £35, May 1989,
“... people – their dislike, amounting to hatred, of others’ material success. Writers like Tibor Szamuely ascribe some of this to the forced levelling of the oldest and most extensive slave-owning society in the world; and to the legacy of that serf-peasant tradition which Soviet Communism has used to stimulate hatred of capitalists and profiteers (Russian ... ”
