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Susna jones final econ 304 2010
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Economics
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06/06/2010

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served as prime minister of Russia concurrent with Yeltsin

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Yegor Gaider

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served as the last general secretary of the communist party of the USSR
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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as president, oversaw russia's big bang conversion to capitalism

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Yeltsin

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perostroika and glasnost helped earn him Time's "man of the decade" recognition
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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T/F?

lenin oversaw the 1921 electrification, but Stalin would take state formation of infrastructure further with his so called super industrialization and gosplan

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True

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T/F?

 

Post stalin, Khrushchev intensifiedcentral planning, resulting in longer lines and decreased allocative efficiency. he lost allegiance of consumers

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FALSE

shorter lines greater allocative efficiency

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T/F?

STALIN'S "FACTORIES IN THE FIELDS" AND MAO'S "GREAT LEAP FORWARD" COLLECTIVIZED AGRICULTURE WITH DIRE RESULTS- BOTH FARMERS AND CONSUMERS SUFFERED

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TRUE

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IN MOSCOW, VIRTUALLY UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM IS PRACTICED BY YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS. CONSUMERISM AND SONSPICOUS CONSUMPTION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, INCLUDING RE BUILDING OF CHURCHES DEMOLISHED BY STALIN, WHO REFERRED TO RELIGION AS THE "OPIATE OF THE MASSES"

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TRUE?

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TF

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIES PRACTCE ASYMETRICAL RECIPROCITY, THAT IS GENERAL RECIPROCITY

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TRUE

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TF

OLD TRADITIONAL ECONOMIES OF THE DOMESTIC MODE VARIETY PERSERVERED OVER TIME DUE TO BOTH ISOLATION AND LACK OF DIALECTIC

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FALSE

THEY EVENTIALLY WERE NOT ISOLATED AND DIALECTIC OCCURED (COKE BOTTLE)

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TF

THEORETICALLY, OLD TRADITIONAL ECONOMIES THAT EVENTUALLY PRACTICE VBALANCED RECIPROCITY WITH NEIGHBORING GROUPS WILL EVOLVE ALONG A UNILINEAL PATH TO BECOMING MARKET ECONOMIES

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TRUE

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