Whoops. In my defense, the sun is coming up and I’m tired enough I had to go back and edit it like three times because I kept realizing I’d left out words, so I just uh didn’t read good there.
I had an answer ready to go for “why did Gorbachev and Deng’s respective reforms turn out different”, but I have a much less clear understanding of the minutia of Khrushchev’s policies apart from like the tractor privatization stuff that didn’t work out too good, the push to increase beef production by trying to grow more cattle feed that didn’t do so well in that climate, and the way the tacit acceptance of the “second economy” set the stage for a lot of stagnation, graft, and corruption that ultimately fed into the liberal bloc that used Gorbachev to seize power and loot everything.
Whoops. In my defense, the sun is coming up and I’m tired enough I had to go back and edit it like three times because I kept realizing I’d left out words, so I just uh didn’t read good there.
I had an answer ready to go for “why did Gorbachev and Deng’s respective reforms turn out different”, but I have a much less clear understanding of the minutia of Khrushchev’s policies apart from like the tractor privatization stuff that didn’t work out too good, the push to increase beef production by trying to grow more cattle feed that didn’t do so well in that climate, and the way the tacit acceptance of the “second economy” set the stage for a lot of stagnation, graft, and corruption that ultimately fed into the liberal bloc that used Gorbachev to seize power and loot everything.