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| Preface | ||
| Pt. I | From Crisis to Catastrophe | 1 |
| 1 | The Past as Prologue: The House That Stalin Built | 7 |
| Avoiding Mirror-Imaging | ||
| A Command System | ||
| Political Socialization and Political Culture: Shared Values and Beliefs | ||
| 2 | Problems of Communism | 17 |
| A Collapsed Soviet Star | ||
| Why 1990-91? The Contradictions of Soviet Socialism | ||
| 3 | Gorbachev and a New Era, 1985-1991 | 31 |
| Glasnost | ||
| From Economic Stagnation to Catastrophe | ||
| Increasing Mortality and Mounting Ecological Disaster | ||
| 4 | Gorbachev's Failed Rural Revolution from Above | 49 |
| Mounting Food Shortages: 1986-1991 | ||
| Future Trends: 1992 and Beyond | ||
| Gorbachev's Agrarian Reforms and After | ||
| A Catalog of Needed Agrarian Reforms | ||
| 5 | Homo-Sovieticus: The Crisis of the Mind | 75 |
| 6 | Prognostications | 91 |
| Pt. II | Revelations of Glasnost: The Soviet and Post-Soviet Mind | 97 |
| 7 | Social Well-Being | 99 |
| Poverty, Incomes, Cost of Living, and Inflation | ||
| Food Availability: Consumption, Shortages, and Nutrition | ||
| Physical Health: Abortions, Infant Mortality, Malnutrition, Environmental Pollution, and Life Expectancy | ||
| Mental Health: Alcoholism, Accidents, and Suicide | ||
| Crime: Sources, Rate, and No Law-Governed State | ||
| Strikes and Disruptions | ||
| 8 | The Soviet Mind-Set: Public Opinions | 133 |
| Agrarian Reform: Privatization and Peasant Attitudes | ||
| Vox Populi: Polls and Other Indicators | ||
| Elite Views: Politicians, Intellectuals, and Journalists | ||
| Suggested Readings | 213 | |
| Index | 215 |
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| $108.95 | Digital |
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Anna Kuznyetsova
reviewed The Soviet Legacy on November 20, 2020
The Soviet Legacy
13 objective statements of fact without a single source to back them up. 2 of the statements I happen to know which studies the author is alluding to and the studies have since been shown to be false. Poor scholarship overall.
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