The U.S.S.R. in Decline

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Surveys Gorbachev's problems in his attempt to reform the Soviet economy. The Stalinist system has produced a demoralized people, incapable of individualism or initiative. While the failure of the Soviet system is recognized by all, efforts to change the attitude of the populace seem, so far, to have been largely unsuccessful. Assistant managing editor, The Washington Post, formerly the paper's Moscow correspondent, 1971-74.

Robert G. Kaiser, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, was his newspaper’s Moscow correspondent from 1971 to 1974. He is the author of Russia: The People and the Power. Copyright © 1988 by Robert G. Kaiser.

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