TY - GEN N2 - "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."-- AB - "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."-- T1 - Building a ruin :the Cold War politics of Soviet economic reform / AU - Feygin, Yakov, CN - HC333 ID - 1553144 KW - HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era KW - Cold War KW - Capitalism KW - Perestroĭka. SN - 9780674296664 SN - 0674296664 TI - Building a ruin :the Cold War politics of Soviet economic reform / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674296664 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780674296664 ER -