Remaking the Soviet Union: beyond aid.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 13, 1991 | Copyright information

On July 17th President Mikhail Gorbachev will present to the annual summit of the Group of Seven biggest capitalist countries his most radical economic plan so far. It aims not merely to reform the Soviet economy but to transform it into something different-a capitalist economy with private companies, convertible rouble and all. He will argue that a lot of western aid is needed to encourage this change.

Grigory Yavlinsky and Graham Allison, the two men on whose ideas the new plan is based, see the willingness of the Soviet Union to join the world economy as an historic ...

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