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Drastic Changes in the Soviet Social Contract

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Gorbachev’s reforms are breaking what for the past three decades or so has been the social contract between the Soviet leaders and the people, and he is attempting to develop and sell a new social contract more suitable to the current situation.

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Chapman, J.G. (1991). Drastic Changes in the Soviet Social Contract. In: Adam, J. (eds) Economic Reforms and Welfare Systems in the USSR, Poland and Hungary. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11690-4_2

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