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Reassessing the Soviet Crisis: Big Problems, Muddling Through, Business as Usual
Alexander J. Motyl argues that the view of the Soviet Union as being in an insuperable crisis suffers from the conceptual confusion surrounding the word "crisis." By distorting concepts, by projecting current trends into the future, and by overlooking the international context, many scholars and other commentators skew their understanding of Gorbachev's Soviet Union.
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