This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union. It addresses the crisis in Soviet agriculture of the early…

This text looks at Russia’s struggle towards a market economy, and the reasons for its economic collapse in August 1998. The author contends that the chief failure was the neglect…

First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model analyses the internal logic of this process from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to Gorbachev’s ‘revolution from above’, including coverage…

Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated his regime-wrecking…