Reinventing Collapse
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Reinventing Collapse
| Full title | Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects |
|---|---|
| Author | Dmitry Orlov |
| Published | 2008 |
| Pages | 210 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Orlov, a Russian-American engineer who watched the Soviet collapse on repeated return trips through the 1990s, argues that the USSR was in several respects better prepared for its own collapse than the United States would be — Soviet housing, transport and food distribution were already communal and state-held, and nobody expected the system to provide. |
Where I heard about it
- @kilobytes_ — posted a photo of the cover on X captioned only “has anyone read this” (September 2026); archived at Has Anyone Read This… (tweet).
About this edition
A collapse-genre book with a specific, unusual comparative claim rather than a general warning. Orlov writes as a polemicist and the thesis is contested; his later work and commentary on Russian politics are more openly partisan than this book. Carded as a recommendation received, not an endorsement.
Connections
- Has Anyone Read This… (tweet) — where this was saved from.
- Dmitry Orlov — the author.
What links here
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