RES: Gorby on Lenin and NEP

Alexandre Fenelon afenelon at zaz.com.br
Mon Jun 24 12:21:28 PDT 2002


-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de ChrisD(RJ) Enviada em: segunda-feira, 24 de junho de 2002 02:25 Para: 'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com' Assunto: RE:Gorby on Lenin and NEP

Me:

For one thing, the USSR got addicted to high oil prices in the 70s and so didn't bother to modernize its industry. What for, if you've got all those oil dollars coming in?

Chris Doss The Russia Journal

-Maybe they would have survived if they tried to follow a merchantilist policy -by modernizing their industry and increasing manufactured exports -(something China is doing now). But the main reason they failed to do it -has to do with agricultural subsidies and defense expendings, the two -biggest drains of SU economy.

Alexandre Fenelon



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