August 28 , 20132.26pm BST Carney: no Soviet-style collapse in Britain Asked about the output gap in the UK, Carney replies that he doesn't see evidence of a "Soviet-style" collapse in the British economy since the recession began.
Even if it does, barring a cataclysm such as a Soviet-style collapse, it will still, in a few years, have a bigger economy than America's.
"Very unfortunately, [the unrest in] 1989 marked an end to any progress with inner-party democracy, if not a retreat from it," Mr Bao says.Despite its proclaimed stability, the party is still fearful of a Soviet-style collapse.
But change is still being held back mostly by the regime's ideology, but also partly by the outside world not helping enough.In this section The curious case of the fall in crime Set the farmers and shopkeepers free Guaranteed to fail Why zero is not an option Testing times ReprintsRaúl (pictured above) is determined to avoid a Soviet-style collapse into oligarchic capitalism.
The past three party congresses -- from the 14th to the 16th -- have shown that the party leaders are trapped in a self-created paradox: they refuse to initiate political reform for fear of a Soviet-style collapse, yet every added measure of repression brings only temporary relief while creating an ever widening social gap.
"China's rulers are caught between fear of a Soviet Union-style collapse if they begin political reform, and an Egypt-style overthrow if they do not," as Didi Kirsten Tatlow rightly put it today in the International Herald Tribune.
Cuba is going slow because it doesn't want economic and political reforms to precipitate a Soviet-style regime collapse.
Its people have no opportunity under its Soviet style dictatorship.
Soviet style management by its nature does not promote information sharing, openness and transparency.
An international consultant reports: Soviet style management by its nature does not promote information sharing, openness and transparency.
But the spectre of a Yugoslav-style collapse remains.
