Summary Of Chapter 3 Command Vs Spontaneity

In the book, Gaddis doesn’t use chronological order which can make the book more confusing. He states that he wants to have a volume that younger people who have no awareness can interpret, but then structures the book on interpretation. As stated in chapter three Command Versus Spontaneity, “By 1971, the Soviet Union’s economy and those of its East European satellites were stagnating” (84). The U.S.S.R stop developing and progressing during the late nineteen hundreds. According to this quote you would think everything after that date was after 1971. However, as the chapter goes on it states, “On February 25,1956, Khrushchev shocked delegates to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party by candidly cataloging, and then denouncing ,