Soviet workers and the collapse of Perestroika

Donald Filtzer
Cambridge University Press
9780521452922
0-521-45292-9

Soviet Workers and Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachevs reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Filtzer.

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argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact, requiring a thorough restructuring of the labour process within Soviet industry. The collapse of the USSR has brought the solution to this problem no nearer, and that post- Soviet capitalism is rooted in corruption and speculation and cannot ensure long- term economic growth.