Still Their Fault
Bernard Porter: The AK-47, 6 January 2011
The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War
by C.J. Chivers.
Allen Lane, 481 pp., £25, November 2010,978 0 7139 9837 5 Show More
by C.J. Chivers.
Allen Lane, 481 pp., £25, November 2010,
“... great industrial success stories of modern times. It was, of course, a Soviet success. For C.J. Chivers, a retrospective Cold Warrior, brought up – brainwashed, you might say – in the dominant American free-market discourse, this poses a bit of a problem. Soviet industry, hidebound by state directives and state planning, uncompetitive and with no profit ... ”
