RES: Gorby's bad Russian

Alexandre Fenelon afenelon at zaz.com.br
Sun Apr 14 08:27:02 PDT 2002


-there was a lot of upward mobility in the USSR!

Chris Doss The Russia Journal

-A truth that?s quite offensive to right wingers. -I read an article in The New Republic denouncing -Sheyla Fitzpatrick as a charlatain because he -wrote there was upward mobility in the 30?s. -This is quite obvious, since industrialization -and high growth rates led to a demand for qualified -professionals, and if there is a expanding educa- -tional system, so people get a lot of opportunities. -But I would say social mobility decreased in the -Brezhnev years due to economic stagnation. -Am I wrong???

Alexanre Fenelon



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