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Soviet plan to end central control and spark capitalism
Mikhail Gorbachev backed a 500 day reform plan that would end Communist central control of the economy, move Soviet republics toward free prices and privatization, and legalize private land ownership. Nikolai Ryzhkov warned the Shatalin plan would lower living standards, bankrupt many collective farms, and end price controls on basic goods.
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Moscow
Russia
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Kremlin
Nikolai I. Ryzhkov
Ryzhkov
Stanislav Shatalin
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