The Destruction of the Soviet Union
Subtitle: A Study in Globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312230159
Subjects: Economics - Theory; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; International - Economics; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Economic History - 20th Century; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World
First sentence: In 1977, Bob Jessop declared that 'nowhere in the Marxist classics do we find a well formulated, coherent and sustained theoretical analysis of the state.'
Description: "Globalization has involved a major restructuring of national economies, leaving no part of the world untouched. It has brought with it dramatic change - from 'Thatcherism', to the de-regulation of Australian financial markets, to the liberalization of Indian investment laws. It also brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. This book examines the effects of globalization on the Soviet economic and political system, as well as on other state-controlled economies.

It concludes the globalization continues to eat away at state systems - from the remaining 'socialist' states to the NICs of East Asia."--BOOK JACKET.