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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
(www.resilience.org)
News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
some parts of it sounds like social chauvinism.
That's fair, but overall analysis seems to be sound. The parts I found particularly interesting were around things like city planning and infrastructure where USSR was planned around communal living, and that made it possible for people to create mutual aid networks to get through the hard times. On the other hand, US has a big suburbia and car culture which is far more problematic in time of shortages and insecurity.