Conversion to a Market Economy

Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  CENTRAL COMMITTEE

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                    MINUTES Of Meeting No. 2
  of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU
                       September 20, 1990

Chairman:  Comrade M.S. Gorbachev

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I.  On the state of the nation and the problems facing the CPSU
in connection with the conversion to a market economy.
     (Comrades Gorbachev, Burokiavichius, Gurenko, Dzasokhov,
Ivashko, Karimov, Luchinskii, Masaliev, Makhkamov, Nazarbaev,
Prokof'ev, Rubiks, Semenova, Sillari, Sokolov, Stroev, Shenin,
Baklanov, Gidaspov, Kuptsov, Manaenkov, Falin, Ryzhkov,
Aganbegian, Shatalin, Abalkin, Masliukov, Sitarian, Pavlov,
Beliakov)

     We adopt the position that was elaborated during the
discussions of the Politburo of the Central Committee on the
further activity to be taken by party organizations in connection
with the conversion to a market economy, with the proviso that
this matter is to be reviewed at the next Plenum of the Central
Committee.

                             [ ... ]


SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE
SOVIET UNION                            [signed]  M. GORBACHEV

 

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