Volume 38, Number 3 · January 31, 1991
The Coming Dictatorship
By Yuri Afanasyev, Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
The autumn of 1990 seemed to promise improvement in the Soviet political climate, and a transition to new kinds of economic relations appeared at last to be under way. Today we have to realize that this transitional stage consists of two processes that are at once interrelated and independent. The first is the transition from empire to a commonwealth of independent states, and the second is the transition from a centralized, planned economy to a market economy and private enterprise.
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