All Posts Tagged With: "Gorbachev"
On Not Admitting Error
According to a September 2006 report in the New York Times, Afghanistan’s opium harvest has increased almost 50 percent from the year before and reached the highest levels ever recorded. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (sic) explained: “It is indeed very bad, you can say it is [...]
1Mar2007 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Political History of Economic Reform in Russia, 1985-1994
Dr. Maltsev is associate professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union was a surprise only to the CIA, Sovietologists, and fellow travelers of Communism in the West. For people like Dr. Vladimir Mau, who followed the direction of economic and political developments in the USSR [...]
1Aug1996 | Yuri N. Maltsev | 0 comments | ContinuedThe World in the Grip of an Idea Revisited
The notion of a work under the title The World in the Grip of an Idea began to take shape in my mind in 1976, and I began the writing of it in the fall of that year (which was also the thirtieth anniversary of FEE). A somewhat amended and expanded version was published as [...]
1May1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | Continued-
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