Building a Ruin. The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform, Hardback/Yakov Feygin

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. Publisher: Harvard University Press Author(s): Yakov Feygin Illustration(s): 8 illus., 5 tables Number of pages: 288 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 163 x 243 x 27 Cover type: Hardback