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sandia wrote: > Can anyone point me toward reading material that surveys the causes > of the fall of the USSR? Would recommend "Eternal Russia" By Jonathon Steele, excellent journalistic account. It's been more than 10 years since i read it, but it really stuck in my mind as giving very detailed analysis of the Yeltsin-Gorbachev conflict and how this played out in the collapse (and by extension the role of the bureaucracy in bringing down the system). Most available on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=HCZi--UtYdEC Ken Jowitt's "New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction" is, although not a Marxist text, very good on the internal political breakdown (as opposed to the mechanistic "command economy doesn't work so system breaks down" NYT analysis). Google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=Qip-UTnpvh8C ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
