The most agonizing and protracted of all the Soviet reform debates has been the debate over economic reform. This anthology of essays and roundtables from party, professional and literary journals surveys the key issues in the market debate.
Part I The Market Debate; Chapter 1 New Anxieties, Nikolai Shmelev; Chapter 2 From Bureaucratic Centralism to Economic Integration of Sovereign Republics, V. Koroteeva, L. Perepelkin, O. Shkaratan; Chapter 3 The Market in a Socialist Economy, L. Abalkin; Chapter 4 The Creation of a Market; Chapter 5 Socialism and Property, Vladimir P. Shkredov; Chapter 6 Leasing Relations in the Economic System of Socialism, L. Nikiforov, V. Rutgaizer; Chapter 7 You Can't Outsmart Life; Chapter 8 What Path Should We Take?; Chapter 9 Reform of Retail Prices, the Mechanism of Compensation, and Development of the Consumer Goods Market, V. M. Rutgaizer, A. I. Shmarov, N. V. Kirichenko; Chapter 10 The Anatomy of Prices; Chapter 11 The Banking System, S. M. Ignat'ev; Chapter 12 Channeling Personal Savings into Production; Chapter 13 How Can Unemployment Be Avoided?; Chapter 14 Economic Culture as Society's Memory, R. V. Ryvkina; Chapter 15 On Urgent Measures to Prevent the Collapse of the Soviet Economy, N. Shmelev; Part II The Plans; Chapter 16 The Ryzhkov Plan; Chapter 17 The Shatalin Plan; Chapter 18 The Gorbachev Plan;
