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End of the Myths |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Mikhail Tsypkin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 4,339 Words, 26,586 Characters |
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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET BLOC
A Documentary Review Seventy Years after the Bolshevik revolution
George R. Urban, Ed.
New Brunswick (USA) and Oxford (UK): Transaction Books, 1998
250 pp., $34.95
Twenty years after the famous "kitchen debate" between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon about comparative standards of living in the two superpowers, it is time for the Soviets to throw in the towel.
Not only do Soviet standards consistently lag behind those in the West, but the lag has been obviously increasing, exposing a dangerous deterioration of living conditions in the USSR. Indeed, Soviet economist Nikolai Shmelev has spoken about the prevalence among his countrymen of apathy and indifference, thievery, disrespect for honest l...
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...ving in the USSR and in the free market democracies. Rather, he is trying to steer his country away from a looming political crisis caused by the deteriorating socioeconomic situation. The economic reform he has proposed will eliminate whatever remains of the vaunted "social and economic rights" of Soviet citizens much earlier than it might conceivably bring any real benefits to the people.
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