... shortage. " Gorbachev proclaimed his intentions to decentralize the economy by offering individual enterprises more autonomy."(p.154). This had a lot of potential to improve the economy, but by the time the law came into effect on January 1988 the new institutions of centralization and discipline were already in use. Enterprises having always been told what to do had little experience dealing with ... the scarcity even more. The problem did not necessarily stand on the heads of the co-operatives owners but rather Gorbachev. Co-operatives "require a proper framework of commercial and con...

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... the strikes were uncoordinated, so government officials settled one after another by agreeing to pay increases. In mid-July, there was a large, citywide strike in Lublin, a city southeast of Warsaw, near the Soviet border. All of the factory workers struck, and all of the railway workers stopped trains headed to the Soviet Union with consumer goods. They took the goods and ... the nationalization of heavy industry, transport and banking. It also supported free medical care and free education. Solidarity also wanted everyone to have full access to the media, and wanted a law defining the...

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... largest in the world. The main petroleum- producing areas in Russia are in the Urals. Siberia's Tyumen Province has rich reserves. Although large oil deposits lie off the Pacific coast near Kamchatka and Sakhalin, Russian attempts to locate these offshore fields have been held back by climate, technology and transportation. A U.S.- Japanese company was given the right to drill for oil off ... change policy and not allow Yeltsin to be president. A two-week showdown began, ending with bloody fighting in the streets of Moscow. Following Yeltsin's victory, congress elections were held. A ne...

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