Word: co
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOSTALGHIA. A Russian writer seeks a cure that will end the pain of his nostalgia, with tragic results, in the film by director Andrei Tarkovsky starring Oleg Yankovsky. A Soviet-Italian co-production...
...proud member. Better yet, call them yuccies -- young upwardly mobile Communists. Osadchuk pays herself a monthly salary of 700 rubles, or $1,120, about three times the average Soviet salary and enough for her family to live very comfortably. Says she: "We buy anything we want." Thanks to the co-op movement, employee profit sharing and other budding forms of entrepreneurship, many Soviets are suddenly earning enough money to do more than just scrape by. They are enjoying a taste of the good life, and some are even becoming wealthy, at least by Soviet standards...
Vladimir Yakovlev, 30, a former journalist, has cashed in on the co-op movement by starting a company to collect and sell information about such ventures. Yakovlev launched the firm, called Fakt, two years ago and already has more than 30 offices in the Soviet Union. Yakovlev, who last fall visited the U.S. for the first time to learn more about foreign trade, pays himself 1,500 rubles a month ($2,400), five times as much as he made as a journalist. His most enviable perk is a company car and driver. "I spend a lot of money every month...
...journalists and writers. We asked Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, to write about the pitfalls of the new Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent almost six years in a Soviet labor camp, contributed an essay...
...half a pound of smoked sausage or 10 rubles ($16) for half a pound of tomatoes. But the alternative was unappetizingly scrawny chickens, larded sausage, pickled fruits and canned goods available at state-run stores at subsidized prices. Still, consumers complained about the high prices at the co-ops. They seemed to believe ample supplies of cheap food were an economic right...