The Socialist Great Divergence. Why Mikhail Gorbachev Failed Where Deng Xiaoping Succeeded

IF 0.2 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Tobias Rupprecht
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While Mikhail Gorbachev opened a door for a possible democratic transformation of the Soviet Union, the economic and financial policies of his Perestroika led to state collapse. Those who reproach him for not having a coherent concept of economic reform often point to Deng Xiaoping, whose ostensibly more clear-eyed vision led China to prosper. Yet on a conceptual level, Gorbachev’s economic and legal arrangements were very similar to Deng’s; both drew on the domestic and international intellectual repertoires of market socialism. It was their political implementation under fundamentally different political, economic and social conditions that led to economic catastrophe in the USSR and to economic growth in the People’s Republic. A ‘Chinese path’ in the Soviet Union, including the application of political violence, may have preserved one-party dictatorship – but would not have provided the basis for an economic upswing. Gorbachev should be given great credit for rejecting such authoritarian market reforms.
社会主义大分歧。为什么戈尔巴乔夫失败了邓小平成功了
虽然米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫为苏联可能的民主转型打开了大门,但其改革的经济和金融政策导致了国家崩溃。那些指责他没有一个连贯的经济改革概念的人经常提到邓小平,他表面上更清晰的愿景使中国繁荣起来。然而,在概念层面上,戈尔巴乔夫的经济和法律安排与邓非常相似;两者都借鉴了国内外市场社会主义的知识宝库。正是它们在根本不同的政治、经济和社会条件下的政治执行导致了苏联的经济灾难和人民共和国的经济增长。苏联的“中国道路”,包括政治暴力的应用,可能保留了一党专政,但不会为经济增长提供基础。戈尔巴乔夫拒绝了这种专制的市场改革,应该受到高度赞扬。
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期刊介绍: Russian History’s mission is the publication of original articles on the history of Russia through the centuries, in the assumption that all past experiences are inter-related. Russian History seeks to discover, analyze, and understand the most interesting experiences and relationships and elucidate their causes and consequences. Contributors to the journal take their stand from different perspectives: intellectual, economic and military history, domestic, social and class relations, relations with non-Russian peoples, nutrition and health, all possible events that had an influence on Russia. Russian History is the international platform for the presentation of such findings.
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