Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985–1991 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Donald Filtzer

Author:Donald Filtzer [Filtzer, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-08-27T18:40:00+00:00

Secondly, as we have discussed in the introduction to this chapter and the chapter on worker protests, and take up further in the Conclusion, the group best placed to rise to prominence in the new market economy was the old nomenklatura, in particular high-ranking personnel within the industrial ministries, and enterprise directors. To the extent that privatization was already beginning to take place during the final phase of perestroika, these people assumed control over the newly privatized means of production precisely through the monopolistic - both in a political and economic sense - structures of the old command system. In a shortage economy this could have only one result: the drive to maximize revenues and personal wealth without any impetus towards dynamic innovation, modernization, or development of the productive forces. The supply crisis was merely an expression of this tendency, which manifested itself more fully after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the scramble for ownership under El'tsin's market reforms.

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