苏共的新总书记安德罗波夫是在一个困难的经济发展时刻接管苏共领导的。当初,勃列日涅夫也曾遇到这种情况,不过比现在毕竟轻松一些。勃列日涅夫成功地克服了赫鲁晓夫年代后期的增长上的衰退现象。勃列日涅夫执政初期,即六十年代后期,从经济上说是他整个执政期中最富有成果的时期(参见本文图表)。在苏联经济当今的危机时期,恐怕再也见不到类似那一时期的增长了。今天的停滞现象看来实在难以医治。这种现 Andropov, the new general secretary of the CPSU, took over the leaders of the CPSU at a difficult time of economic development. At first, Brezhnev had encountered such a situation, but after all, it was easier. Brezhnev succeeded in overcoming the growth recession in the late Khrushchov. The early days of Brezhnev’s rule, the late 1960s, were economically the most productive period of his entire administration (see chart). At a time of crisis in the Soviet economy, I am afraid I will never see any growth of that period. It seems difficult to heal today’s stagnation. This is now