Soviet global power depended directly on its internal social organization

Evidence

Gorbachev, of course, imagined that if his regime unilaterally dissolved the existing social organization of production and power in· the Soviet Union, the country would painlessly become part of what he calls, in somewhat racist terms, ‘our common European home’, with irs global position intact, quire unmindful of the obvious fact that the global position rested directly on that internal social organization; without it, neither the position nor the country itself, even in the most basic territOrial arrangements, could remain what it was. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1327

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• XREF: connects to: The Soviet Union fell chiefly from within, not from Western pressure — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 105