Lenin's program was called the New Economic Policy.
The NEP restored some aspects of capitalism on a temporary basis. Small businesses (under 10 workers) were allowed to operate for personal profit and peasant farmers were allowed to work their land and keep their produce subject to paying a tax to the government. Hard-line Communists disliked the plan feeling that it betrayed the ideals of the Revolution to eliminate capitalism.
It weakened the Soviet economy, affecting the Soviet Union's ability to support military commitments around the world.
Its name was the New Economic Policy.
Perestroika was a program put into place by Gorbachev that was designed to address the restructuring of the Soviet economy. It was Gorbachev's intent to revitalize it.
glasnost
Perestroika was a program initiated by Soviet premier Gorbuchev in the waning days of the Soviet Union. It was an attempt to add some features of a market economy to the centrally-planned Soviet economy. It was accompanied by the idea of "glasnost" or openness, a backing away from the strict control of opinion and its expression as developed under Stalin.
Soviet Space Program/ your face
because the soviet economy was in serious trouble
it weakend the soviet economy and encouraged mikhail gorbachev to promte reform in the Soviet Union
The economy under the Soviet Union was under various degrees of disaster.
In Soviet Russia, Economy reconstructs you!
Soviet President Gorbachev named personal freedom as a number one issue for the Soviet Union. Through his Glasnost program, he sought to increase individual rights, stimulate the economy, and make the government more transparent.
Nikita Khrushchev was the Soviet premier who announced a de-Stalinization program in the Soviet Union.