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March 1986 Issue
March 1986 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Richard Avedon's Imagined West
    Louise Todd
  • A New Route to Equality
    Ronald Dworkin
  • The Serpent and the Rainbow
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • South Light
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • Rat Man of Paris
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
  • America in Europe
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

The Ussr: Atari Bolsheviks

Moscow’s ambitious campaign to “computerize" the Soviet economy is off to a slow start

By Alex Beam
March 1986 Issue
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