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1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-406
Author(s):  
Elmar Jarvesoo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Sectoral Analysis ◽  
The Soviet Union

Efficiency vs. Equality and the Demise of Socialism

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Hardin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World

One of my fellow graduate students at MIT had access to the Pentagon Papers at a time when they were still classified, and he was writing a dissertation on aspects of the American involvement in Vietnam. One morning over breakfast he discovered that he had been preempted by the New York Times. Every scholar recently working on the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe must understand that student’s sensation that morning. By now, they must face newspapers with a mixture of hope and foreboding. Events outrun the most radical predictions. Not only has the Wall crumbled, with pieces of it being sold as souvenirs, but Albania has established telephone connections to the world not long after westerners came to believe Albania had been the only nation in modem times to succeed in disappearing.

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