...Daniel J. O’Neil Alex F.   Dowlah , John E.   Elliott . The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism . Westport, Connecticut : Praeger Publishers Inc   1997 . 283 pp   £51.95 © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> History Socialism USSR One of the more interesting...

... E.   Elliott . The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism . Westport, Connecticut : Praeger Publishers Inc   1997 . 283 pp , ISSN: .95 © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> History Socialism USSR One of the more interesting aspects of modern Soviet scholarship has been its...

...John E. Elliott Examines the process of systemic disintegration in the USSR brought about by perestroika, demokratizatsiya and glasnost. Places Soviet economic crises in a broader political and nationalities context. Concludes that liberalization and democratization led both...

... Development Economic systems Leadership Politics Social economics Socialism USSR At the same time, government expenditures rose, partly because of unexpected disasters, notably the Chernobyl nuclear power accident and an earthquake in Armenia. Large increases in domestic investment and in machinery...

... future[ 3 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Democracy Development Economic systems History Leadership Social economics Socialism USSR This article examines Mikhail Sergeivich Gorbachev′s[ 1 ](1985‐1991) period of Soviet development as an exemplar of a self‐declared movement towards...

... to a locked‐in biological metamorphosis(orthogentic fallacy), belies empirical reality[ 18 ]. And second, that the methodology also infers a unilinear path, towards a preconceived teleological destination for all nations/countries as human progress, is contested by many. The collapse of the USSR provides...

... Capitalism Economic systems Market economy Ownership Social economics Socialism USSR The conventional analysis of “non‐market” economic systems denies the existence of markets in the Soviet‐type economies because these systems lack economic freedom. Also, the traditional analysis places emphasis...

... Limited 1994 Eastern Europe Economic systems Marxian economics Social economics Socialism USSR Socialism is basically a moral concept of striving for the universal happiness of humankind (Spann, 1972, pp. 210‐1). However, it is held that this idea of humanity rooted in distributional...

...). Ethics History Religion Socialism USSR Values The endeavour here to describe the evils of Soviet Communism to which Solzhenitsyn more than any other single individual, living or dead, has brought our attention, is necessarily a very limited one. The chronicles of such evils are voluminous...

... universe of the USSR) to acknowledge or accept the Afghan experience as a national disgrace. Few have trouble passing Afghanistan off as a particularly painful aspect of the legacy of the "era of stagnation" but at the same time few are willing to admit that the present Soviet nation is responsible...

... up as the buyers′ market of plenty. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Economic theory Marxian economics Social economics USSR International Journal of Social From a Ricardian to a Economics Marxian Ranking of Economic 19,7/8/9 Goals and Means 90 (A Case of the Soviet Union) Ernest Raiklin...

... of social change. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Politics Social economics USSR Socialism CIS Socialism and its Future in the Post-Soviet Era Socialism and its Future in the Post-Soviet Era John E. Elliott University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA In December 1991, the Union of Soviet...

.... Will socialist economic development with imported technology inevitably end up in a free enterprise economy, as is happening in the Soviet Union?Discusses these questions beginning with an analysis of the three stages of socialist development attempted in the USSR, with a brief review of sources of technological...

... of Independent States, as the former USSR is now known, certain aspects of this article reflect on previous structures and systems. It nevertheless provides many fascinating insights into the factors which have brought the former communist world to its present state. International Journal of Social Economics...

...‐Leninist ideology. Solzhenitsyn decries the evils of the USSR and attributes them to the evils of the Marxist‐Leninist ideology. Gorbachev, alive to the shortcomings of the socialist society and the dangers of a nuclear war has, unlike his predecessors, assumed the role of diplomat and peacemaker...

... successors. Leninist ideology is taught in the USSR at all levels of the educational system as a compulsory field of study. As already mentioned, special emphasis is given to Lenin's distinction between strategy and tactics. It means "that unswerving dedication to the final aim must be combined with extreme...

... and international balance of payments. The ultimate goal of the plan is the realisation of a social economy of free, just and stable markets. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Social economics USSR Financial planning An "Economic Miracle" in the An "Economic Soviet Union is Still Possible! Miracle" Anghel N...

... conditions to lay the foundation for a“functional socialist social market economy”, however defined, in the Soviet Union. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Economic systems Market economy USSR Socialism Gorbachev's Perestroika Beginning of a Soviet Socialist Social Market Economy? by Siegfried G...

.... At the end of this sceptical Western analysis, it is concluded that the policy is cosmetic restructuring and Gorbachev′s downfall, like Khruschev′s, is assured. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Centralization Decentralization Economics Socialism USSR Reflections on Economic Aspects Perestroika...

... Politics USA USSR International Journal of Social Economics 16,2 46 The Fantasy of Glasnost by Tibor R. Machan Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, USA Some time ago on a William F. Buckley, Jr. programme Firing Line, Murray Kempton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, made...