FROM PLAN TO MARKET: THE BEGINNING OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BELARUSIAN ECONOMY IN THE YEARS OF PERESTROIKA

In this paper we study the process of formation of the basis for the new social-economic order in 1985–1991, explore the problem points and reasons for deformation, difficulties and disadvantages in the process of formation of the Belarusian economy, the peculiarities of the perestroika process in Belarus.
The author comes to a conclusion that social and economic transformations during perestroika gave start to a new wave of consistent social and economic modernization.
Publications on the history of Belarus and the Soviet Union by Belarusian and foreign authors are the theoretic and methodical basis of this research. The article is based on a wide range of public and archived sources: official documents of government agencies, statistical documents and media publications.

the policy of Perestroika, transformation, modernization, Belarusian SSR, transitional society, market economy

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