Word: shatalin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most radical proposal--known as the Shatalin plan for its principal author, economist Stanislav Shatalin--would give land back to farmers, sell factories to private owners and move the Soviet Union toward a free market in a period of 500 days...
Gorbachev on Friday presented the compromise plan, written by Shatalin and another leading Soviet economist, Abel Aganbegyan. It contains many elements of Shatalin's radical 500-day plan but would move at a slower pace and not disturb the central government's power to levy taxes...
...Shatalin program, worked out with cooperation from the republics, represents a radical departure from the Kremlin's fumbling efforts in the past to develop a "regulated market economy" that would be subject to central control. At the heart of the plan is a scheme to privatize state-owned property. In what would amount to a vast redistribution of national wealth, large enterprises would be converted into shareholding companies; medium- and small-size businesses and shops would be put on the market; and land would be offered for sale to peasants. The Shatalin program also proposes the step-by- step deregulation...
...decision to set up the Shatalin commission undercut the wobbly Ryzhkov government's efforts to formulate a new economic-reform package to replace a program that the national parliament roundly rejected in June. During a meeting with the Gorbachev-Yeltsin team last month, Ryzhkov reportedly protested that the group's decentralization schemes would "ruin and bury the Soviet Union." Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin, the government's chief economic guru, has also charged that "everything is being done to malign and overrun this last stronghold" -- the central government. But the leaders of the Russian republic take a different view...
Although Gorbachev supports the Shatalin plan, he does not appear ready to * break ranks with Ryzhkov and has even warned against a destabilizing shakeup of the central government. Gorbachev has suggested a compromise: an economic package following the Shatalin group guidelines, with amendments taken from the Ryzhkov proposals. The unified program, which will be prepared by a third group, led by economist Abel Aganbegyan, will be submitted for debate to the republican and national parliaments. The Russians, for their part, have made clear that they want only the Shatalin plan and not the mixed version, which Yeltsin said was like...