Organization & Management Lessons: From The Soviet Union?

Abstract

There are lessons to be learned, other than the obvious geopolitical ones, from the foment within the Soviet block nations; from the conflict associated with newly realized borders and among the various subcultures. Naturally enough, political and social scientists have been rubbing their hands with the same kind of glee we see among cartoonists when Heads of State are in real trouble. Normally, caricature and its various non-graphic or verbal equivalents requires considerable exaggeration of even slightly prominent features of the landscape. Under recent circumstances such exaggeration is hardly necessary, the rate of change in Eastern Europe these last several months has been almost surrealistic, containing its own exaggerations.