Download or read book The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System written by Michael Ellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet system was one of the few distinct ways of organizing human affairs in all areas of human life. Its disintegration is enormously important both in its own right and because of its implications for the rest of the world. This text examines the era of collapse in detail.