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Changing the Soviet Autocracies: Problems of Transition
Author(s) -
Winiecki Jan
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1990.tb00720.x
Subject(s) - autocracy , soviet union , transition (genetics) , economic system , socialist economics , political science , free market , market economy , economics , political economy , democracy , law , chemistry , politics , biochemistry , gene
How can socialist economies make the transition to the free market? Jan Winiecki, of the University of Warsaw, explains some of the difficulties and concludes that reform in the Soviet Union may only be achieved after a military coup.