----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
By the way, Kagarlitsky wrote and said that when it still looked like Gorby wanted Communism to "work better." The CP elite was jealous of its counterparts in the west. The guy who ran the construction industry in Leningrad lived in a three-room apartment. They wanted villas. ----------
I read Boris' four-volume appraisal of the regime change in USSR & met him and heard him lecture when he was in the Bay area. Everything he says dovetails with what I observed in Romania about class divisions and the hunger of the ruling class for western privilege.
Joanna