![]() He looks to Lenin to find inspiration and guidance on how to do this. So in endeavoring to democratize the economy or to improve the economy, you have in Gorbachev a figure who assumes that first, you need to democratize the society, which all sounds great. Explain how his reforms that were supposed to help democratize actually really led to a state that was far from democratic, the chaos of the ’90s, and then we get into the era of Putin. “… later siloviki-dominated economy.” Paul Jay Which I understand means “strongman,” which mostly meant the military and intelligence agencies. “Gorbachev’s reforms let loose creative forces alright, just not ones making the economy more productive, but rather those that gave rise to the post-Soviet oligarch and later siloviki-dominated economy.” Paul Jay Here’s another quote from Jeff’s article that I found in Counterpunch” Excerpt In addition to his academic work, he’s been published in all kinds of big publications, and the list is in the first interview. Jeffrey Sommers is a professor of Political Economy of Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he also serves as a senior fellow at the Institute of World Affairs. If you haven’t watched part one, you really should because it sets us up for part two. We’re going to continue our discussion with Jeffrey Sommers about the death of Gorbachev and dig into the last years of the Soviet Union and how Gorbachev’s policies paved the way for the rise of the oligarchs. ![]()
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