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determined the central plan |
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Stalin's first 5 year plan |
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Fatal Weakness with the Soviet Command Economy in the 1970's |
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Why did the Soviet Command economy die in the early 1990's? |
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due to the discovery of vast oil reserves in Siberia in the late 1960s and the rising oil prices in 1970s. |
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“A country that was in outer space, that had this kind of defense, could not make enough panty hose for women, not enough toothpaste or the simplest things for people’s lives” |
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Who initiated Perestroika and Glasnost? |
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would later describe Gorbachev’s error as wanting “to combine things that cannot be combined, to marry a hedgehog and a grass snake”. |
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gave more independence to directors of factories, and created some incentives for private firms, especially with a 1988 law that legalized any company with three or more owners to be counted as a “cooperative”. Cooperatives were, in reality, nothing but private enterprises. |
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“broad stratum of private owners” |
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became the first liquid financial security in Russia. People could hold on to them and acquire shares in specific companies, exchange them for shares in mutual funds, or sell them. |
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few. By 1995, it became clear that privatization created a class of wealthy tycoons called the |
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has been used to describe a small number of Russian businessmen who came to prominence under President Boris Yeltsin. They tended to achieve vast wealth by acquiring Government assets very cheaply during the privatization |
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two of the “young reformers” chiefly responsible for “shock therapy” privatization in the early 1990's. |
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Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar, |
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–a former trade official turned banker- visit to “Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine”. He realized that the company was sitting on one of the world’s richest reserves of nickel, copper, palladium, and silver. By the mid 1990s, despite its |
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The loans-for-shares program led to sweeping disillusionment with democracy and capitalism. In a sense, the deal became the symbol of the corrupt process of privatization, and it was called |
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