I understand that former USSR was a command economy, but were there any privately owned companies back than?

Question

We were just talking about this and now we're at an impasse...there had to have been at least 1 or 2 privately run companies in the former USSR no?

Answer 1

Just one: the mafia.

Answer 2

Former USSR was an Empire .Did you ever notice how they became Capitalist on the speed of light.They were taking most of resources from Eastern Europe and they kept non Russian states deliberately poor.Most of other states mostly Muslim had free economy.Because you cannot do sheep herding through command economy

Answer 3

unquestionably the Fed intentionally keeps wages down for the ninety 9%. each and every time inflation drops decrease than a undeniable point, they boost expenses of activity up slightly. This motives economic boost to decelerate appropriate formerly agencies ought to commence competing for workers. to that end, there is not at all a scarcity of workers, and their pay not at all is going up. The fed has overtly admitted to intentionally manipulating the economic equipment against the ninety 9% in this form. case in point, a former fed officer as quickly as reported "If the economic equipment keeps to boost over 4% and the exertions marketplace keeps to tighten, you could see yet another value upward push in February". it is merely one occasion of how the fed overtly admits that it intentionally keeps wages down. interior the final 30 years the a million% have considered a 275% upward push in earnings, whilst the middle type has not even stored up with inflation, and the unfavorable are starting to be poorer. The fed intentionally manipulates the economic equipment to make their cronies on Wall highway richer whilst the ninety 9% get poorer. it's time to end the Fed.

Answer 4

Not that I understand, it was all govt. owned and eventually ran through the hierarchy of the communist govt....for example the politburo....its like an elistist group of those keen on the idea of maintaining a communist regime.

China has made an exception, in transitioning between communism and more into socialism...with a political communist basis and a demand style economy.

Answer 5

You mean Communist economy and there were absolutely
NO private companies in the Soviet Union.

Answer 6

Illegal ones, sure. Also, the USSR cut deals with outfits like Pepsi to have distribution rights.

Answer 7

When you say "Back then," you've got to be more specific. Please remember that the Soviet state existed for 80 years - 1917 to 1998 - more or less. That's a lot of ground to cover.
I'll be watching for more info. TBC

Answer 8

During the Civil War (1917-1921), Lenin adopted War Communism, which entailed the breakup of the landed estates and the forcible seizure of agricultural surpluses. The Kronstadt rebellion signaled the growing unpopularity of War Communism in the countryside: in March 1921, at the end of the civil war, disillusioned sailors, primarily peasants who initially had been stalwart supporters of the Bolsheviks under the provisional government, revolted against the new regime. Although the Red Army, commanded by Leon Trotsky, crossed the ice over the frozen Baltic Sea and quickly crushed the rebellion, this sign of growing discontent forced the party under Lenin's direction to foster a broad alliance of the working class and peasantry (eighty percent of the population), although left factions of the party favored a regime solely representative of the interests of the revolutionary proletariat. Lenin consequently ended War Communism and instituted the New Economic Policy (NEP), in which the state allowed a limited market to exist. Small private businesses were allowed and restrictions on political activity were somewhat eased.

However, the key shift involved the status of agricultural surpluses. Rather than simply requisitioning agricultural surpluses in order to feed the urban population (the hallmark of War Communism), the NEP allowed peasants to sell their surplus yields on the open market. Meanwhile, the state still maintained state ownership of what Lenin deemed the "commanding heights" of the economy: heavy industry such as the coal, iron, and metallurgical sectors along with the banking and financial components of the economy. The "commanding heights" employed the majority of the workers in the urban areas. Under the NEP, such state industries would be largely free to make their own economic decisions.

The Soviet NEP (1921-29) was essentially a period of "market socialism" similar to the Dengist reforms in Communist China after 1978 in that both foresaw a role for private entrepreneurs and limited markets based on trade and pricing rather than fully centralized planning. As an interesting aside, during the first meeting in the early 1980s between Deng Xiaoping and Armand Hammer, a U.S. industrialist and prominent investor in Lenin's Soviet Union, Deng pressed Hammer for as much information on the NEP as possible.

During the NEP period, agricultural yields not only recovered to the levels attained before the Bolshevik Revolution, but greatly improved. The break-up of the quasi-feudal landed estates of the Tsarist-era countryside gave peasants their greatest incentives ever to maximize production. Now able to sell their surpluses on the open market, peasant spending gave a boost to the manufacturing sectors in the urban areas. As a result of the NEP, and the breakup of the landed estates while the Communist Party was consolidating power between 1917-1921, the Soviet Union became the world's greatest producer of grain.

Agriculture, however, would recover from civil war more rapidly than heavy industry. Factories, badly damaged by civil war and capital depreciation, were far less productive. In addition, the organization of enterprises into trusts or syndicates representing one particular sector of the economy would contribute to imbalances between supply and demand associated with monopolies. Due to the lack of incentives brought by market competition, and with little or no state controls on their internal policies, trusts were likely to sell their products at higher prices.

The slower recovery of industry would pose some problems for the peasantry, who accounted for eighty percent of the population. Since agriculture was relatively more productive, relative price indexes for industrial goods were higher than those of agricultural products. The outcome of this was what Trotsky deemed the "scissors crisis" because of the scissors-like shape of the graph representing shifts in relative price indexes. Simply put, peasants would have to produce more grain to purchase consumer goods from the urban areas. As a result, some peasants withheld agricultural surpluses in anticipation of higher prices, thus contributing to mild shortages in the cities. This, of course, is speculative market behavior, which was frowned upon by many Communist Party cadres, who considered it to be exploitative of urban consumers.

In the meantime the party took constructive steps to offset the crisis, attempting to bring down prices for manufactured goods and stabilize inflation, by imposing price controls on key industrial goods and breaking-up the trusts in order to increase economic efficiency.

Answer 9

There were but inevitably to be successful they had to be heavily sanctioned by the ruling party.

Answer 10

well not unless they were black market. there were underground places that sold amenities like sausage and razor blades and cigarettes for profit but they were all under the table

Answer 11

not just one there were lots many and agin now a days there are few