... Soviet Union workers peasants labor relations Vladimir Putin industrialization monotowns communism capitalism 264 Workers form the exemplary class of economic, social, and psychological losers of the postcommunist transition. Working-Class Resilience in Russia JEREMY MORRIS Ever since...

... of restlessness and hope permeating a country that appears finally to be emerging from its past. FLAGGING PERFORMANCE As recently as the early 1990s, Vietnam was overwhelmingly agrarian, largely isolated from world trade, and among the poorest countries in Asia. Today it is industrializing and global- izing...

... the public wants. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Communist Party democratization economy Gorbachev industrialization Khrushchev perestroika Putin Russia Soviet Union 336 Putin appears to have more in common with Brezhnev...

... took hold. Applied science brought, for exam- ple, the chemical industry, which came of age in the mid- to late nine- teenth century. By 1990 it had generated some 80,000 new com- pounds that found routine use, and inevitably also found their way into ecosystems un- adapted to them. A small proportion...

... industrial economies rely heavily on the global commons for free natural services, such as areas to dispose of pollutants. For example, reliance on fossil fuels leads to increases in CO2 in the atmosphere, and in turn to global warming. Developing countries undergo- ing industrialization will draw...