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Ostpolitik, Detente and the Collapse of Communism (Ostpolitik: A…
Ostpolitik, Detente and the Collapse of Communism
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Economic reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union: Imperial overstretch and creeping forces of capitalism?
Brooks and Wohlforth: 'Zero-sum calculations' and imperial overstretch led to the downfall of the Soviet Union as the biploar world saw it repeatedly strive to compete with the United States
US government sources tended to estimate that between 16 and 17% of Soviet Union's annual expenditure went on defence and the military --> question the validity of these figures. Hard to distinguish to what extent this escalation was based on the reality of perception of the spending of the 'other side'
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'Cunning Figures' - Problems of source material. Authorised figures show a x90 increase in national income from 1928 to 1986. But more likely that it was a 6/7 x increase and negative growth from 1979 to 1982
Re-org - abolished central committee which had been in charge of eco pol in a centralized way. Political reorganisation meant that control of economic policy was also de-centralized
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1989: Agricultural reform which would make peasants 'masters of their land'. But, compared to rapid de-collectivization during the 'reform and opening' period of post-Mao China, land-leasing system was relatively moderate
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