... markets, and makes other recommendations for businesses involved in the FSS market. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Crime Foreign investment International trade Market economy USSR Wealth The initial wave of euphoria that followed the fragmentation of the Soviet Union has given way to the mixed...

...Nigel J. Holden As the USSR undertakes the transition to a market economy, western words and concepts to describe business and management activity are becoming increasingly used there. The semantic discrepancies between the English word “businessman” and the Soviet word biznesmen...

... deficit is running at 100 billion roubles (£100 bn); three-quarters of hard currency earnings are being used to service the foreign debt. Recent industrial action in the USSR has been the inevitable reaction to poor living standards and the general shortcomings of the command economy, now that political...

... that augments (the USSR's) military power". It is clear that ensuring the success of perestroika will involve the transfer of technology, but this must be regarded in a different light to the days of the Cold War. Now it can be used for mutual benefit, development and profit instead of mutual tools...

... to the dinosaur that is the Soviet economy and giving enterprises, co-operatives and ministries alike, independent access to foreign markets. Old Methods The dismantling of the centralised planning system, which has maintained the USSR's authoritarian political structures for decades, has not proved...