This is the first study of bread regulation in a post-World War II democratic country. Under Israel’s Labor Socialist regime, bread was mostly privately supplied. In setting prices, policymakers faced tradeoffs between producer profits/viability of small-scale producers and consumer welfare,...

This paper was written before the fall of the USSR, during the final days of perestroika, when there was still a great deal of optimism in many sectors of the left and some expectation among mainstream Sovietologists that "reform Communism" might transform the USSR from an authoritarian welfare...

This paper was written before the Fall, and when the fate of the former Soviet Union and Marxism in it was still in question. At the time many people interested in Soviet politics had high expectations for Gorbachev's reform program, with some expectation that it would rescue "actually existing...