# Catastrophe or Cartharsis

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- Book: [Catastrophe or Cartharsis](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-menshikov/catastrophe-or-cartharsis) ([Catastrophe or Cartharsis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-menshikov/catastrophe-or-cartharsis.md))
- Authors: [Boris Menshikov](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-menshikov)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-58-5217-013-2
- Pages: 280
- Published: 1992-09-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Catastrophe or Catharsis? Lays bare the reasons why the Soviet economic reform has plunged into crisis. In precise, vivid prose, Menshikov describes the exhaustion of the ‘command system’ in...