Quote of the Day | 0622
there were plenty of structural reasons — economic, political, social — why the Soviet Union should have collapsed as it did, yet they fail to explain fully how it happened when it happened. How, that is, between 1985 and 1989, in the absence of sharply worsening economic, political, demographic, and other structural conditions, did the state and its economic system suddenly begin to be seen as shameful, illegitimate, and intolerable by enough men and women to become doomed?
Leon Aron, ‘Everything You Think You Know
About the Collapse of the Soviet Union is Wrong’
[x]#8919 fan woensdag 22 juni 2011 @ 21:43:05
