Download or read book Hard Times written by William Moskoff and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the objective and subjective experience of economic decline as it affected ordinary Soviet citizens during the Gorbachev era. Moskoff examines key questions, such as the causes of food and goods shortages and the extent of declining living standards.