Marketisation and Democratisation: The Sino-Soviet Divergence

Wlodzimierz Brus

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1993, vol. 17, issue 4, 423-40

Abstract: The article confronts the 'conventional wisdom' of the inextricable link between marketization and democratization--a view reinforced by the 1989-91 revolutions in the communist part of the world--with the diverging experience of China on the one hand and the Soviet Union under the Gorbachevian perestroika on the other. The comparative discussion is not intended to provide a basis for major generalizations or for passing value judgments on the relative merits of the Chinese versus the East European 'road to the market'; it aims only at examination of the possibility of another--reformist, evolutionary--scenario, with the autocratic polity ('mono-archy') playing a positive role in the process. (c) 1993 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright 1993 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1993
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