[32] Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, when economic reforms backed by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced significant changes in the traditional system (see perestroika), the allocation of resources was directed by a planning apparatus rather than through the interplay of market forces.
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The planning process was based around material balances—balancing economic inputs with planned output targets for the planning period. Organized on a large scale and highly mechanized, the Soviet Union was one of the world's leading producers of cereals, although bad harvests (as in 1972 and 1975) necessitated imports and slowed the economy.
In 1990, the Soviet Union was more populated than both the United States and Canada together, having some 40 million more inhabitants than the U.S. alone. Verteidigung.
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Although the five-year plan was enacted into law, it contained a series of guidelines rather than a set of direct orders. Once a free conversion of currency was allowed, the exchange rate plummeted from its official values by almost a factor of 10.
With the exception of a brief experiment with regional planning during the Khrushchev era in the 1950s, Soviet planning was done on a sectoral basis rather than on a regional basis.
As Daniel Yergin notes, the Soviet economy in its final decades was "heavily dependent on vast natural resources–oil and gas in particular". [49] Common and political prisoners in labor camps were forced to do unpaid labor and communists and Komsomol members were frequently "mobilized" for various construction projects. including capital expenditures of $119 billion (1989 est. ), Exports: $110.7 billion (f.o.b., 1988); Individuals who were paid from abroad (for example writers whose books were published abroad) normally had to spend their currency in a foreign-currency-only chain of state-owned Beryozka ("Birch-tree") stores. The Soviet Union became one of the leading industrial nations of the world.
There were two basic forms of property in the Soviet Union: individual property and collective property. Land in rural areas was allotted for housing and some sustenance farming, and persons had certain rights to it, but it was not their property in full. However, when Nikita Khrushchev consolidated his power by sacking Georgy Malenkov, one of the accusations against Malenkov was that he permitted "theoretically incorrect and politically harmful opposition to the rate of development of heavy industry in favor of the rate of development of light and food industry". Though its GDP crossed $1 trillion in the 1970s and $2 trillion in the 1980s, the effects of central planning were progressively distorted due to the rapid growth of the second economy in the Soviet Union.
The 1976–1980 five-year plan shifted resources to agriculture and 1978 saw a record harvest followed by another drop in overall production in 1979 and 1980 back to levels attained in 1975. GDP levels in 1950 (in billion 1990 dollars) were 510 (100%) in the Soviet Union, 161 (100%) in Japan and 1,456 (100%) in the United States. 50 лет со дня отставки", "A look at the old ration system in Russia", "The Importance of Blats in Soviet Everyday Life | Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities", "A Comparison of the US and Soviet Economies: Evaluating the Performance of the Soviet System", Manufactured goods sector was worth 118 billion rubles in 1972, "The Economic Impact of Soviet Military Spending", Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, The Myth of the Plan: Lessons of Soviet Planning Experience, "What Went Wrong in the 'Socialist' East?
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The estimated population of the USSR in 1991 was 293,047,571 persons. 8% Ranked 4th.
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