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by David Pitt-Watson, Carol Scott Leonard
Privatization and Transition in Russia in the Early 1990s
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Background to the book
A guide to the book
Why is the book significant?
Privatization prior to 1992: a synopsis
1. Privatization and the Russian transition: perspectives
Background to privatization in Russia
Pressure for reform, 1985β1991
The decisions
Perspectives on privatization
The early reputation of privatization
Reception of reform: mid-1990s
What went wrong?
The consensus shift
Further reflections
Conclusion
2. The Mass Privatization Programme: the ideas, their evolution and their embodiment in law
Introduction
Who was responsible for privatization?
Constitutional considerations
Institutional considerations
The ownership of Russian enterprises prior to the 1992 Privatization Programme
The appointment and involvement of the reformers
The Privatization Programme of June 1992
Categories of enterprise
Privatization options
Other aspects
Vouchers
Discussion
3. Reforming the communist inheritance: the goals and limits of privatization
The command economy
The role of money and prices
Efficiency, profitability and productivity
Credit and capital
Commercial law
Monopoly and transport systems
Enterprise towns and the social role of enterprises
Labour and labour mobility
The goals of privatization
Economic objectives
Ownership
Creating a market economy
Social and political objectives
Generating popular support
Changing attitudes
The end of the command-administrative economy
Summary
4. Implementation of privatization, 1992β1994
Implementing the 1992 programme
Privatization of small enterprises
Privatization of medium and large enterprises
The challenge from associations and holding companies
Response by enterprises
Voucher design and its effects
Implementation on the ground
What was being sold and how?
What was achieved?
5. Implementation of privatization after 1994
Introduction
Interpretations
Summary of the LFS arrangement
The historical context
1994
1995
The period in perspective
Conclusion
Introduction
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Summary
Appendices
Appendix 1
Text of the 1992 Privatization Programme
State privatization programme of state and municipal enterprises in the Russian Federation in 1992
1 Introduction
2 Classification of facilities and businesses according to the possibility of privatization in 1992
3 Estimatedfigures (indicators) ofprivatization for organs of state power and management
4 Norms of distribution offunds from privatization in 1992 and forecast of their revenues from 1992 toβ1994
5 Methods of privatization and the benefits provided by privatization in 1992
6 Conditions offering credit for privatization in 1992
7 The use ofpersonal privatization deposits of citizens in 1992
8 The use of foreign investment
9 The order of interrelations of state privatization organs among themselves, with other organs of state management and budgets of all levels
10 Formation of special-purpose financial funds using the revenue received from privatization
11 Requirements for local programmes of privatization
Appendix 2
The role of associations
1 Representing the firms
2 Supply coordination
3 Implementation of R&D
4 Marketing
5 Investment/financing
6 Production coordination
Conclusion
Appendix 3
Inter-enterprise debt
Inter-enterprise debt background
Appendix 4
The conduct of voucher auctions in the Russian regions
Smolensk voucher auctions
Privatization in Novosibirsk
The privatization process
Setting up a privatization centre
Voucher trading
Notes
References
Index
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