Book Analysis: The Russians.

Abstract

The author chose to analyze Hedrick Smith's The Russians because it portrays such vivid images of the Soviet Union. It is a straightforward book that gives insight into the daily lives of Soviet citizens. However, the book serves only as background for a more specific question: Is Mikhail Gorbachev likely to succeed or fail? His greatest task is to re-invigorate the Soviet economy by exposing corruption and by de-centralizing production. The methodology chosen in this paper is to select some of the problems that Hedrick Smith describes in The Russians to illustrate the magnitude of the task that lies before Gorbachev. Foreign policy trade journals and the opinions of two experts will then serve to estimate the probability of Gorbachev's success.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA194279

Entities

People

  • Judith I. Centers

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agriculture
  • Communism
  • Domestic
  • Economic Systems
  • Education
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • International Relations
  • National Politics
  • Political Science
  • Social Problems
  • Students
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design