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    Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
    Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
    Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
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    Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated

    By Dmitry Orlov

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    A guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities

    The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the United States has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s toward national bankruptcy and political dissolution. By comparing a collapse that has run its course to one that is now unfolding, Dmitry Orlov holds a unique lens up to America's present and future.

    As Orlov's predictions continue to come true, his writing continues to gain mainstream acceptance. This revised and updated edition of Reinventing Collapse examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet superpower and offers clear insights into how we might prepare for the events that are unfolding here.

    Orlov gives no quarter to prophets of doom and gloom, finding plenty of room for optimism, if only we focus our efforts on personal and cultural transformation instead of trying to perpetuate an impossible status quo. This challenging yet inspiring and surprisingly upbeat work is a must-read for anyone concerned about peak oil, the environment, geopolitics, international relations, and life in a resource-constrained world.

    Dmitry Orlov is an American engineer who was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse and has written extensively on the subject of the impending collapse of the United States.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781550924756
    Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
    Author

    Dmitry Orlov

    Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and writer who was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. Orlov lives off the grid, sailing his boat up and down the Eastern Seaboard and commuting by bicycle. He is the author of Reinventing Collapse and blogs regularly at Club Orlov.

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    • 5/5
      As the US is coming to an end this book is more profound than ever.
    • 3/5
      This was a solid book, with moments of some surprising humor. However, it felt a bit slim after having just read two other deep and involved books about social collapse: the peak oil-focused Confronting Collapse and the environmental devastation-focused What We Leave Behind. There wasn't much in this that wasn't covered in greater detail in those two books. However, this does definitely have its moments (I really liked the "Adaptation" section) and it is a nice introduction and primer to social collapse. And it was interesting to see the collapse of the Soviet Union compared to the future collapse of the U.S.I would recommend this as an intriguing and even at times entertaining introduction to the subject, but there are works of greater depth to be found elsewhere.
    • 5/5
      This book is serious, but also very funny. He doesn't argue for a "collapse" of the U. S., he just assumes that it will happen and shows the similarity between the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. on that basis.

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