Talk: The Solidarity Economy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, May 30, 20221:00pm CDT – 2:00pm EDT
Aleksandr Buzgalin
Possibly the most cataclysmic and tragic event of the post WWII period was the illegitimate and manipulated demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. As then President Gorbachev was inching toward democratic reform and opening Soviet society to the west, his Western “partners” – Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, James Baker and others were orchestrating the complete collapse of the Soviet economy and society under the program known as “shock therapy.” Many true Russian democrats and socialists were working toward a renewal of a workers’ state with equal benefits to all. Under Chubais’ voucher privatization reform program, for a moment there was a chance of a different outcome for Russia – something more egalitarian and democratic than the oligarchic, authoritarian state that exists today — one built on worker ownership and worker control of the means of production.
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