Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy

by Paul Craig Roberts, Karen LaFollette

Inside the Soviet Economy

Genres: History

152 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

Reviews

[Bob Diethrich]

Great details and sourced evidence of the sheer idiocy and incompetence of the Soviet Union, published just a year before the country ceased to exist. Makes great use of actual Soviet press stories, that were recently allowed under "glasnost" and "peristroika" by Gorbachev. Should be required reading for every US college socialist who thinks government can plan an economy.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great description of why central planning and socialism will never work. Central planning and collectivism failed miserably in the Soviet Union yet socialism continues to try to make a come back every few years. The book discusses the distinction of a socialist system all together.