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Economic Aspects of the Soviet “New Course”*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

David Granick
David Granick
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Fisk University, Nashville
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HOW new is the Soviet “new course”? It is just as difficult to answer this question as it applies to the internal Soviet economy as in its application to internal politics or to foreign affairs. Nor is this surprising, for it is probable that there is a close interrelationship between the various facets of Soviet policy.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , April 1956 , pp. 345 - 354
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1956

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