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...known as the 500 Day Plan, with or without Kremlin approval. Then, in a dramatic about-face last month, Gorbachev invited the Russians to submit their scheme as the basis for a new economic program for the central government, to be drafted by a commission led by economist Stanislav Shatalin, a member of the group of Gorbachev advisers who make up the Presidential Council. The decision to join forces with Yeltsin was a masterstroke. By siding with the maverick Russian leader, who enjoys widespread popular support, Gorbachev improved his chances of pushing through reforms in an increasingly fractious country...
...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...
There was more politics than persistence in Shtykov's comeback. The man he replaced was Nikolai N. Shatalin, who had been in the top Moscow secretariat when Georgy Malenkov was Premier, but had been literally sent to Siberia when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week...