Emmanuel Putin

Charles Lane speculates on just what collapsing oil prices will mean for Russia and Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. This depends, Lane writes:

… on who has the more accurate view of authoritarian power dynamics: Yegor Gaidar or Emmanuel Goldstein.

Gaidar was an economist so his field of study was based on reason. In his view, the Soviet Union couldn’t survive:

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