Beyond Perestroika

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When the Soviet system teetered on the brink of collapse in the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to head off the impending systemic failure with economic reforms known as "perestroika." While there was great debate in the West as to how important these reforms were, in the Soviet Union the public dismissed them as nothing more than tinkering around the edges of a failed system.

A popular joke widely circulating around the Soviet Union made this clear: A young Soviet boy asked his father to explain

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