Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR is an excellent recent documentary and a perfect supplement to Keeran and Kenny (2010). (You can view it here in Chinese on Youku.) Where Keeran and Kenny frame the telling of the Soviet Union’s demise squarely around the proliferation of a “second economy” within the larger socialized economy, this documentary offers a rival, but in many ways complementary, interpretation. Not for reasons having to do with the clandestine economic activity of the petty bourgeoisie did the Soviet Union collapse but rather, for reasons having to do with
One of your best yet, Amir. Please put it on STFF and I'll blast it out.