Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985 1991

Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labor policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Filtzer 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 labor process within Soviet industry. He contends that 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.

• | Author: Donald Filtzer
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0521452929
• | ISBN-13: 9780521452922