1. Nixon, Richard. 1980.The Real War, 19New York: Warner Books. Brian Crozier among others has argued that if the Cold War could be conceived as World War III, it was being fought as a shadow war, frequently discernible but seldom acknowledged. Crozier, as cited in
2. Hanson, Philip. 1992.From Stagnation to Catastoika: Commentaries on the Soviet Economy, 7–19. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies.
3. Goldman, Marshall. 1983.U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of the Economic System, 82–87. New York: W. W. Norton. The Central Intelligence Agency noted the continuation of overestimates of Soviet harvests even after the end of the Stalin era and that such unrealistic forecasts were more likely at lower levels of both the party and administrative bureaucracy Central Intelligence Agency