John Kenneth Galbraith : The Economy after the Cold War (1989) - the fifth estate

From 1989 Bob McKeown in a feature interview with economist John Kenneth Galbraith as the Soviet Republics began to collapse with the Cold War all but over. Professor Galbraith highlights what he sees as the dangers of what Eastern Europe faced post-communism: that the vacuum left between and old system and a new one could lead to a period of chaos.

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