Economic Growth in the USSR in the Eighties

Abstract

The roots of the dramatic deterioration of the USSR's economic position in the 1980s must be sought in the entire preceding period. Short-term changes in general and economic policy only modified the impact of long-term factors. The most important of these was the deterioration of the moral, professional, and physical characteristics of labor resources. Already at the beginning of perestroika this was reflected in appeals to strengthen the role of the human factor.