Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Economic Perestroika
- The encouragement of joint ventures - 1987
- January
- allowed foreign business to be
established
- 1990 = first McDonald's in
Moscow
- hoped this would open USSR
to more modern technology
- The Law of State Enterprises - June 1987
- allowed loosening of state
control over wages and prices
- allowed elements of
election and choice in
managers
- factories given right to produce what
they liked once state targets had been
met
- Co-operatives legalised in 1988
- allowed small-scale
enterprises to be
established
- set their own prices
- Gorbachev able to partly
disguise the move to a
more market based
economy
- term co-operatives
appealed to more
conservatives elements
in the party
- January 1987 = launch of Perestroika =
economic reconstructing