
Published online:
01 November 2003
Published in print:
22 February 2001
Online ISBN:
9780191599835
Print ISBN:
9780199241507
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3.1 The Soviet System and the Contradictions of Early Post‐Modernization 3.1 The Soviet System and the Contradictions of Early Post‐Modernization
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3.2 Limits of Adaptation Mechanisms: Mobilization and Decentralization 3.2 Limits of Adaptation Mechanisms: Mobilization and Decentralization
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3.3 The Régime Becomes Unstable 3.3 The Régime Becomes Unstable
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3.4 The Results of Revolution: Will the Crisis of Early Post‐Modernization Be Overcome Successfully? 3.4 The Results of Revolution: Will the Crisis of Early Post‐Modernization Be Overcome Successfully?
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Chapter
3 The Preconditions for Revolution in the USSR
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Pages
74–97
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Published:February 2001
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Mau, Vladimir, and Irina Starodubrovskaya, 'The Preconditions for Revolution in the USSR', The Challenge of Revolution: Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective (Oxford , 2001; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Nov. 2003), https://doi.org/10.1093/0199241503.003.0004, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the reasons why the Soviet command economy proved unable to achieve the level of modernization required for its survival. It demonstrates how the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) over the economy lacked the capacity to adapt to postmodern conditions, and thereby set in motion the destabilizing processes that eventually brought it down.
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