Abstract
Mr Gorbachev’s rise to the general-secretaryship of the CPSU has led to a veritable flood of unprecedentedly candid information from the USSR. Coming from all levels and parts of the Soviet polity and society, this information tends to focus on the ills of the Soviet economy, and serves to underpin Gorbachev’s twin remedial imperatives of ‘acceleration’ [uskorenie] and reform or ‘restructuring’ [perestroika].
The research underlying this chapter has been generously supported by the Ford Foundation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (contract 620–5), Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates, and by several units of the University of California, Berkeley. This support is gratefully and cheerfully acknowledged.
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Grossman, G. (1989). The Second Economy: Boon or Bane for the Reform of the First Economy?. In: Gomulka, S., Ha, YC., Kim, CO. (eds) Economic Reforms in the Socialist World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10668-4_6
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