The problem of deficit did not appear just before collapse of the USSR: on situation in trade in Gorky region at the beginning of perestroika

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems associated with the increase of difficulties in Soviet trade in the Gorky region at the beginning of perestroika. A number of settlements of the region where there are big difficulties with trade and consumer services of the population are revealed. An attempt is made to refute the widespread provisions on the key role of the Soviet leadership of the perestroika era in creating a crisis situation in the USSR in the second half of the 1980s

Keywords

• perestroika
• gorky region
• economy
• crisis
• trade
• regional committee
• deficit