JoeJan 14
Honestly the USSR collapsing just shows how fragile that system was. And yeah the 90s were rough for basically everyone post-Soviet, but the Baltics clearly played it better long term. Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania have way higher QoL, better schools, actual functioning institutions, more opportunities, etc. Meanwhile Russia went the oligarch + authoritarian capitalism route and never really recovered socially. So ‘it got worse’ is true short term, but long term they absolutely upgraded.
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This is your brain on neo-liberalism. Read books, kids.
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Show threadHomelyBodySallowThighJan 14
Jblog didn’t provide any sources, can I ask outside of the quips the counter critique to this line? You don’t have to explain anything, just some links, articles, etc
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Studies

  • Kazatchkine, M. D., & Shishkin, S. (2017). Health in the Soviet Union and in the post-Soviet space: from utopia to collapse and arduous recovery//How history shaped the health system in Russia. The Lancet
  • Privatization in the countries of Eastern and central Europe and of the former Soviet Union - by Pekka Sutela
  • Poverty in Eastern Europe and the CIS - Chapter 7
  • 6 year drop in life expectancy in Russia 1991-1994.
  • THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF SUDDEN IMPOVERISHMENT: EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE 1989-94 TRANSITION …cuni.cz/…/AUC_1999_34_Rychtarikova_Is_Eastern_Eu…, www.oecd.org/els/emp/4383228.pdf, worldbank.org/…/youth-unemployment-in-south-east-…, ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/…/wcms_142377.pdf
  • Shpotov, B. (2011). Stalin’s Industrialization, Great Depression, and Western business
  • Soviet Union: Facts, descriptions, statistics. (1929). Soviet Information Bureau. (Original work published 1929).
  • Markus, B. (1936). The abolition of unemployment in the U.S.S.R. International Labour Review
  • Cereseto, S., & Waitzkin, H. (1986). Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life. International Journal of Health Services ( A must read!)
  • Hickel, J., & Sullivan, D. (2024). How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis
  • Hill, M. H. (2024, March 14). Under the red banner: Socialism, physical quality of life, and development

    • Books

  • Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
  • Jeffery Sachs: The strange case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid by Japhy Wilson
  • Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti
  • Russia without Putin by Tony Wood

    • Videos

    1.Socialism is just better, scientifically. 2.Socialism is still better, scientifically.

    3.How capitalism destroyed Eastern Europe ft. ‪@YUGOPNIK‬.

    4.How Capitalism Destroyed Russia.

    5.The Trap of Decommunization. Ukraine, Yugoslavia, war..