num_pages: 320
description: Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labor policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact requiring a thorough restructuring of the labor process within Soviet industry. He contends that the collapse of the USSR has brought the solution to this problem no nearer and that post-Soviet capitalism is rooted in corruption and speculation and cannot ensure long-term economic growth.
language: English
title: Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985–1991
publisher: Cambridge University Press