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Ironically, these somber facts may be indicative of success more than failure. Inflation, which reached 54% last October, sank to 6% in April. Absenteeism in industry has been halved during the past five months, as layoffs have increased. Food shortages seem a thing of the past. Shop shelves are full...
Despite all these new problems and reminders of old ones, Gorbachev was still trying to convey the impression that he was driving events rather than reacting to them. In one of his boldest political gambles yet, he linked the implementation of economic reform -- higher prices, lower state subsidies and the...
America's most fashionable doll appeared on grocery shelves last year. Breakfast With Barbie offers a bowl of itty-bitty hearts, bows and stars in lollipop colors. Ghostbusters contains marshmallow specters, and Nintendo Cereal Systems boasts fruity-flavored video-game characters. Hot Wheels, for fans of Mattell's little toy...
Or so a visitor might think -- unless he remembers where he is. This is Russia, a land of extremes, where history is the stuff of which pessimism is made and where the alternative to the millennium is the apocalypse. Part of Gorbachev's challenge is to introduce modulation into the...
If what ails the Soviet Union is Marxism, what will cure it is the introduction of market mechanisms. But the Soviet people are not prepared for that sort of shock. True, a free market will put more goods on the shelves of the gastronom, or grocery store, but with state...