Word: shatalin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then the Soviet President delivered what was probably the unkindest cut of all to Ryzhkov. He indicated that he preferred not his Prime Minister's proposals but a radical plan drafted by the Yeltsin-Gorbachev commission, under the leadership of economist Stanislav Shatalin. "If you ask me," he said, "I am more impressed by the Shatalin plan." The Ryzhkov proposals, he noted, reflected an "uncertainty" about carrying out measures to rebuild economic confidence. Explained Gorbachev: "If there is a real plan to stabilize finances, money circulation, the ruble and the market, then we should adopt the Shatalin idea...
That would be a breathtaking plunge. The 500-day Shatalin program would reverse the basic aim of the Bolshevik revolution and Stalin's brutal overlay of collectivism by creating a nation of shopkeepers -- or more accurately, a federation of republics with economies built on private businesses, individually owned farms, entrepreneurial investments, and stock markets trading shares in competitive companies...
...compromise proposal also backs away from private ownership of land. While Shatalin's 500-day plan calls for selling some land to individuals for nominal prices, the compromise calls for leasing...
Gorbachev has urged a compromise to avoid a split with the parliament of the Russian Federation, the largest of the 15 Soviet republics. It overwhelmingly adopted Shatalin's 500-day plan last week...
...prime minister of the Russian Federation, Ivan Silaev, said Monday that Russia would continue to push for private ownership of land. Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian Federation president, has warned that if the national legislature does not adopt Shatalin's 500-day plan, Russia will move ahead with the reforms...