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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

Chris Miller · University of North Carolina Press · 2016

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Author
Chris Miller
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DOI 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630175.001.0001
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2026-09-01

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DisputedThe Soviet Union could have survived as a reformed federation had different choices been made about the sequencing of reform and the union treaty in 1990–1991.EstablishedGorbachev's economic reforms decentralised enterprise decisions and legalised cooperatives without freeing prices or hardening budgets, which worsened shortages and the budget deficit in 1989–1991.