Abel aganbegyan biography

Abel Aganbegyan, head of the economics section of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was a precursor of current economic reform.

His ideas were long considered unacceptable, but in some ways have been overtaken by more far-reaching proposals for economic change. His role now seems largely to be a traveling spokesman on Soviet economic reform. He was interviewed by editors during a recent visit to Boston.

Abel aganbegyan biography

Excerpts: Is perestroika [restructuring] achieving in 1989 what it should have achieved by now?

The picture in different spheres of perestroika differs very widely.... In the areas of foreign policy and disarmament, there has been a great breakthrough.

Hardly anyone would have expected that by 1989 the Soviet Union would have reduced military production by 19.5 percent.

But together with the pleasant surprises, life has handed us some bad ones. The country's financial situation has worsened.

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