Economy Of Russia

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first atomic station was opened in 1954. By
the 1980’s about 40 nuclear reactors were operating in the Soviet Union.
In the late 1970’s the economic backwardness of the Soviet Union had
become so self evident that no amount of political propaganda could
obscure it. Western developed countries began to enter the Information
Age, introducing new communication technologies and electronic links
among institutions and individuals. The Soviet Union still relied on the
rigid planning and pervasive controls, leaving no room for initiative and
inventiveness. When Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the party in
1985, the huge country began to move. Gorbachev surrounded himself
with a number of reform-minded economists and soon formulated the
main pillars of economic restructuring called perestroika. The major goals
of perestrioka were to make Soviet enterprises more self-governing and to
give them more freedom, while at the same time, more responsibility ...

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