Top Communists of soviet union Communism Thursday March 20 2014 12 02 PM 1 2 3 4 Lenin Stalin Kruschev Gorbacheff Central planning Market replaced by state bureacuracy State owns factories mines farms Moscow set production quotas Workers get guranteed wage Education healthcare employment retirement guranteed Economic problems from central planning Impossible for govt to plan effectively No competition No worker incentive for individuals to produce more Net result corruption shortages inefficiency Societal institutions False consciousness Opiate of the masses religion True gender equality Envision elimination of marriage Provide greater work and political opportunities for women Eliminating National and Ethnic idenity Gorbachev in power in 1985 Middle of economic crisis economic stagnation Perestroika 86 institutional reform Some market reforms in agriculture and industry Struggled due to bureaucratic inflexibility Glasnsost 88 openess of public debate Make management and administration open to public debate State appears resistant to change Presidency proposed in 1988 implemented in 1990 Eastern europe Soviet state pushed reforms and weakened soviet controlled satellite states demand reforms of their own Transformation of Economic Institutions Page 1 own Ussr support for other communist states ended East germany fell in 1989 became part of west germany 15 new countries come from collapse of ussr russia is one China dosen t collapse Tiananman square Azor ghat rise of poly powers Transformation of Economic Institutions Page 2 Transformation of economic institutions Tuesday April 01 2014 12 07 PM Establishment of free economy and private property Privatization transfer of state held property into private hands Marketization the recreation of market forces of supply and demand Shock therapy Success of economic institutions reform Variety do better if shorter soviet control procommunist experience ties with west and EU support corruption link between rule of law and economic growth inequality poverty unemployment china Social vacuum what is new individual and collective identity Re emergence of religion ethnic identity nationalism reviewing gender relations decline of social safety ne benefiting women and families Results of changing societal institutions draw people together or increase societal divisions sometimes civil war and dissolution of states Conflicts become international and religious Russian and chinese nationalism Shores up nondemocratic legitimacy in abscense of communist idealogy Roots of Inequality NICs newly industrializing countries States that have made progress towards becoming advanced industrial countries Rapid economic development Often trending towards political and social stability greater democratization South korea mexico Saudi arabia Less developed countries States that have not made economic progress Roots of inequality History Empires Single political authorities that have under their sovereignty a large of external regions or territories Imperialism A system in which a state extends its political power to directly control territory resources and people outside border Colonialism A greater degree of physical occupation of a territory by settlers or the military Transformation of Economic Institutions Page 3 Modern imperialism dates to 1500s Tech development in europe middle east asia allowed them to project military might far overseas Seafaring Military technology Chinese empire in asia Ottoman empire Transformation of Economic Institutions Page 4