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Tolerating economic reform: popular support for transition to a free market in the former Soviet Union.

American Political Science Review,  September, 1993  by Duch, Raymomd M.

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The disintegration of the Soviet Union has led to the movement toward market economy in the East European countries and the republics of the former USSR. The people are growing impatient with the economic reforms and are demanding a rapid transition from abject poverty to wealth in Poland and the eastern part of Germany.

It is doubted whether these former communist countries can maintain democratic institutions and yet bear the economic upheaval caused by the transition to market economy. The Soviet citizens' responses to market reforms were positive, because they understood the reason for the ...

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