>From: Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>I still think that there was an opportunity in the mid-1960s for Khrushchev
>to try (and succeed!) in doing what Gorbachov tried (and failed!) to do in
>the mid-1980s--glasnost, perestroika, and a successful journey along the
>Chinese path to economic reform.
>
I think I agree. The big screw-up in the Soviet Union was Brezhnev, who slept his way through power. I think by the 1980s it was probably too late to do anything, to my deep, deep regret. The fall of the Soviet Union was just so awful...
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