Plausibility-check: Could the USSR during its post-WWII history have pursued Deng Xiaoping style free market reforms?
Could those have made CPSU rule viable over the long-term?
In China, the reforms started first in agriculture and small enterprises in the late 70s.
these reforms had a bit of resemblance to the NEP reforms of the USSR in the 1920s.
To a certain extent the USSR in 1978-1991 was already too industrialized to start market reforms in agriculture and have them work, or at least have them match the positive results obtained in China.
However, might Chinese style reforms have saved the Soviet economy if launched a bit earlier in Soviet economic and political history?
If so, when was the latest point such reforms would have been likely to save the economy and the regime?
The late 40s? The 1950s? The 1960s?, the 1970s? the 1980s?
Could those have made CPSU rule viable over the long-term?
In China, the reforms started first in agriculture and small enterprises in the late 70s.
these reforms had a bit of resemblance to the NEP reforms of the USSR in the 1920s.
To a certain extent the USSR in 1978-1991 was already too industrialized to start market reforms in agriculture and have them work, or at least have them match the positive results obtained in China.
However, might Chinese style reforms have saved the Soviet economy if launched a bit earlier in Soviet economic and political history?
If so, when was the latest point such reforms would have been likely to save the economy and the regime?
The late 40s? The 1950s? The 1960s?, the 1970s? the 1980s?