Such was the theme of the latest poll conducted by the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion in eleven regions in four of the country's union republics: the RSFSR, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kirghizia. A combined total of 1,440 urban and rural dwellers 16 years of age or older took...

bONS:/b Aleksandr Nikolaevich, during the days of August 1991âwhich are already historyâyou became head of the RSFSR Ministry of Labor and Employment, a ministry upon which the republic's economic reform will largely depend. Is this fact taken into account? Will the ministry's functions...

The reform of prices has by virtue of its political and social significance become the subject of wide discussion. And even though the State Committee for Prices has not yet publicized its draft of the reform, the editors of newspapers and journals (iLG/i is no exception) have been deluged with...

Judging by newspaper publications in the last year and a half, probably no economic process has developed as stormily and rapidly as the shadow economy. The dynamics of the process is truly stunning. In August 1988 the newspaper iTrud/i [Labor] assessed it at 70-90 billion rubles. In spring of...

The articles by Academician T. I. Zaslavskaia and S. S. Shatalin, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (iKommunist/i, 1986, nos. 13-14)â  devoted a prominent place to the problem of improving the system of distribution, which will have a most direct bearing on the realization...