Abstract

1 January 1992: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had ceased to exist. Its demise can be attributed to a number of causes, but the attempt to ‘liberalize’ both its economic and its political system was certainly one of the most important. The liberalization of politics and economics under secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev since about 1986 entailed nothing less than the attempt to disentangle politics and economics and to create at least semi-independent spheres for political and economic activity.

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