Shuttles
Following Boris Yeltsin’s decree known as “On Free Trade,” a sudden flood of foreign goods began to enter the country. Along with imported goods,...
Category: Economy
Soviet money
In the Soviet economy, the monetary units were rubles. All transactions were made in the national currency – rubles. In 1991, the USSR collapsed,...
Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a movement that formed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. It is named after Alexei Stakhanov, who in 1935...