... the truth about capitalism. A comment I heard dur- ing my fieldwork among Russian workers, barely scratching out a living in the harsh realities of this decade s industrial capitalism, also sticks in my mind: An ordinary muzhik knows many tricks and so won t ever lose out. . . . Ask the people around you...

... of California Jonathan London Communist Party Vietnam industrialization trade foreign investment corruption repression Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung corruption U.S Relations China South China Sea 229 Vietnam has arrived at a momentous juncture in its...

... 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...