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Table of Contents:

• 1. The Soviet Example
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union: An Overview
• My Return to Russia
• My Premise
• 2. Superpower Similarities
• The Myth of Inclusiveness
• Technological Progress
• The Cost of Technological Progress
• Militarism
• World's Jailers
• Evil Empires
• Bankruptcy
• Collapse of Legitimacy
• 3. The Collapse Gap
• Collapses in General
• Housing
• Transportation
• Employment
• Families
• Money

• Consumerism
• Food
• Medicine
• Education
• Ethnicity
• Religion
• Energy
• Inevitable Conclusion
• 4. Collapse Mitigation
• Reasonable Expectations
• Political Solutions
• Private Sector Solutions
• Activism and Apathy
• Boondoggles to the Rescue!
• Investment Advice
• Do It Yourself
• 5. Adaptation
• Loss of "Normalcy"
• Smelling the Roses
• Comforts and Necessities
• Surviving Radical Cashectomy
• The Revised Playbook
• Lowering Your Standards
• Playing the Part
• The Settled and the Nomadic
• 6. Career Opportunities
• Asset Stripping
• Drugs and Alcohol
• Providing Security
• Serving Your Country
• Alternative Medicine
• Alternative Transportation
• Social Work in the Home.

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Author/Creator:

Orlov, Dmitry

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Reinventing collapse: the Soviet example and American prospects [by Orlov, D.]

Subjects:

Economic forecasting — United States

United States — Economic conditions — 2001-2009

United States — Politics and government — 2001-2009

Soviet Union — History — 1985-1991

1985-2009

Economic conditions

Politics and government

Economic forecasting

Soviet Union

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

x, 165 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

HC106.83 .O75 2008

ISBNs:

9780865716063
0865716064

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008426338

OCLC Numbers:

182529398