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Book Talk: the Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join us for a talk with Chris Miller, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University, about his book The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of…