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1949

Economy of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Comecon is established at a Moscow economic conference January 5-January 8, 1949, at which the six founding member countries are represented

1951

Economy of Russia

Stalin, Joseph · General Secretary of CPSU

5th Five-Year Plan, 1951-55

1955

Economy of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · First Secretary of CPSU

Gosplan is divided into two commissions, the USSR Council of Minister's State Commission for Advanced Planning and the USSR Council of Minister's Economic Commission on Current Planning, tasked with predictive and immediate planning

1957

Economy of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · First Secretary of CPSU

The Polish protests and Hungarian uprising led to major social and economic changes, including the 1957 abandonment of the 1956-1960 Soviet five-year plan, as the Comecon Governments struggled to reestablish their legitimacy and popular support

1961

Economy of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · First Secretary of CPSU

A Comecon council session approved the Basic Principles of the International Socialist Division of Labour, which talked of closer coordination of plans and of "concentrating production of similar products in one or several socialist countries"

1962

Economy of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · First Secretary of CPSU

Calls for "a common single planning organ", resisted by Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, but most emphatically by increasingly nationalistic Romania, which strongly rejected the notion that they should specialize in agriculture

1963

Economy of Russia

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich · Kazakhstan · First Secretary of CPSU

Declares the Kazakhstan virgin lands a failure & seeks 2 million tons of US wheat

1984

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Russia & China sign a $1.2 billion trade agreement

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Russian growth is %2.6, lowest since World War II. Oil and gas constituted eighteen percent of exports in 1972 and 54 percent by 1984

1985

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Reduces vodka production by 60% & increases its price by 200% by 6 months in office

Economy of Russia

Belyakov, Oleg Sergeevich · Head of Department

Appointed Head of the Dept of the defence industry of the Party Central Committee

1986

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Attempts to prevent private enterprise on the black market

1987

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Creates co-operative businesses in catering, services & consumer goods manafacture

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

At the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Gorbachev presents his "basic theses," which laid the political foundation of economic reform for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union.

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The original version of the Soviet Joint Venture Law, which went into effect in June 1987, limited foreign shares of a Soviet venture to 49 percent and required that Soviet citizens occupy the positions of chairman and general manager.

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union passes the Law on State Enterprise, the law stipulates that state enterprises are free to determine output levels based on demand from consumers and other enterprises

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

At the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Gorbachev presents his "basic theses," which laid the political foundation of economic reform for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

Gorbachev presents the Law on the State Enterprise, factories and mines the right to decide what to produce after satisfying the basic requirements of the state planning authorities

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union passes the Law on State Enterprise, the law stipulates that state enterprises are free to determine output levels based on demand from consumers and other enterprises.

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

The original version of the Soviet Joint Venture Law, which went into effect in June 1987.

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

limited foreign shares of a Soviet venture to 49 percent and required that Soviet citizens occupy the positions of chairman and general manager.

1988

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

For the first time since Vladimir Lenins New Economic Policy, the law permits private ownership of businesses in the services, manufacturing, and foreign-trade sectors. Allows foreigners to invest in the Soviet Union in the form of joint ventures with Soviet ministries, state enterprises, and cooperatives

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · General Secretary of CPSU

For the first time since Vladimir Lenins New Economic Policy, the law permits private ownership of businesses in the services, manufacturing, and foreign-trade sectors. Allows foreigners to invest in the Soviet Union in the form of joint ventures with Soviet ministries, state enterprises, and cooperatives. The rationing of meat was policy in twenty-six of the fifty-five regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1988 alone

1989

Economy of Russia

Chernomydrin, Viktor Stepanovich · Chairman of Gazprom

Gazprom earns 1/3 of Russias hard currency from exports

1990

Economy of Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich · Moscow · General Secretary of CPSU

Triples bread prices in order to move toward a "regulated market economy"

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