WI The Soviet Union survives?

[snerfuplz]

A restructuring of the agrarian sector, based on the the Chinese model.

A move away from Heavy industry to consumer electronics.

I attended a reading of a military historian at my college, he basically said that: "The Sovjets knew the economic clock was ticking in 1970."

It needs to be more drastic than that. They have to reform the companies that were overmanned and under worked. Also they would have to add incentive to get the Soviet workers to work. As the Soviet workers used to say, "We used to pretend to work and they used to pretend to pay us."

 

[Rhysz]

It was meant as the first in a long line of reforms.

 

[KunlunShan]

Reminds me of this thread...

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=76802

Although he exaggerates the ease with which the USSR might have fixed it's economy, Kunlunshan is almost certainly right in that we need a fairly early POD for this to work: the USSR was a rotting hulk by 1991, and and most of the states didn't see much benefit to be had in sticking around. OTOH, if the USSR succeeds in reforming it's economy, will it have much incentive to reform politically? (See, China).

Bruce

Gorbachev would still be in the timeline