End of Russian Socialism: History of Perestroika

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History of the fall of the Soviet Union as interplay between Russia's economic legacy, a sequence of economic and political decisions undertaken by Gorbachev's government in the 1980s, and international forces that influenced Russia's decision to reform; includes exploration of principles and aspirations that informed Soviet socialist economy in theory and practice; traces the restructuring of Soviet economic system into its present-day capitalism a la Russe.