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While in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe communism collapsed in 1989, in the Soviet Union it collapsed only two years later, in 1991. Simultaneously, the Soviet Union disintegrated into a number of independent states, all of which faced the problem of economic transformation and, hence, also that of open unemployment. However, in the following only the case of one successor state (namely, that of post-communist Russia) will be examined in some detail, preceded by an overview of the issue of unemployment in the former Soviet Union.
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Cf. Vladimir Popov, ‘Soviet Economic Reforms: Lost Opportunities and Remaining Hopes’, in Reiner Weichhardt (ed.), The Soviet Economy under Gorbachev, Brussels, NATO, 1991, pp. 26–38.
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Porket, J.L. (1995). Soviet Union and Russia. In: Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist and Post-Communist Economies. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374225_13
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