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Anthony Jones Β· 1991
48/100
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Indiana University Press published this 1991 academic study of the Soviet cooperative movement during the Gorbachev era, and the Social Forces peer review confirms its scholarly credibility. It fills a genuinely underserved niche in Soviet economic history and was later made open-access, which says something about its retained reference value. But the audience is extremely narrow, and for that audience the open-access version is the natural choice over a print purchase.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing75
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy77
Hype vs delivers45
Age-fit25
πŸ‘ Human-eye gut-check48
Penny’s verdict48
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