@article{1553144, author = {Feygin, Yakov,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1553144}, title = {Building a ruin : the Cold War politics of Soviet economic reform /}, abstract = {"Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in unresolvable contradiction and eventual sclerosis."--}, recid = {1553144}, pages = {1 online resource (viii, 273 pages)}, }