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Perestroika Economic Reforms and the Soviet Planned Economy's Dissolution (1985–1991)

Perestroika Economic Reforms and the Soviet Planned Economy's Dissolution (1985–1991)

  1. “Acceleration” agenda announced at Party plenum

    Labels: Uskorenie, Party plenum
  2. Enterprises gain wider direct foreign-trade rights

    Labels: State enterprises, Foreign trade
  3. Law permits foreign joint ventures in USSR

    Labels: Joint ventures, Foreign firms
  4. Law on State Enterprise increases factory autonomy

    Labels: Law on, State factories
  5. Law on Cooperatives legalizes independent cooperatives

    Labels: Law on, Worker cooperatives
  6. 19th Party Conference backs broad institutional reforms

    Labels: 19th Party, CPSU reforms
  7. Government moves to restrict cooperative activities

    Labels: Cooperatives, Soviet government
  8. USSR adopts law recognizing non-state property forms

    Labels: Property Law, Supreme Soviet
  9. “500 Days” plan intensifies market-transition debate

    Labels: 500 Days, Market transition
  10. Pavlov currency reform withdraws large banknotes

    Labels: Pavlov reform, Currency withdrawal
  11. State price hikes trigger public backlash

    Labels: State price, Consumer backlash
  12. Hard-liners attempt coup amid reform and union crisis

    Labels: August 1991, Hard-liners
  13. Belovezha Accords declare USSR effectively ended

    Labels: Belovezha Accords, Russia Ukraine
  14. Soviet of Republics formally dissolves Soviet Union

    Labels: Soviet of, Dissolution