Adam B.’s Reviews > Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union > Status Update

Finished chapter on the second economy. I think the most interesting part is how it disrupts the necessary feedback loop within a centrally planned economy and leads to both the theft of state resources by those in the second economy as well as the misallocation of resources as since the second economy would fill shortage gaps, planners could not account for these gaps in the future. Also the emergence of a bourgeois

Currently chapter 2 directly post Stalin, talking about internal party politics between Khrushchev and Molatov or whatever his name is