Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union dissolved. On a superficial level, events vindicated the longtime American assertion that socialism “doesn’t work”–Soviet consumer goods lacked both quality and variety, Soviet agriculture was a continual disappointment, and, in the USSR’s later years, labor discipline grew very lax, and corruption flourished. Yet Soviet socialism had more economic successes More

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