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http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/DCrouse/files/chapter%2017%20section%202%20economic%20reform.pdf

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#q=struggle%20for%20economic%20reform%20in%20russia&safe=active&ssui=o

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They are rising taxes.
So custom revenues could lead to higher living standards.

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Organized crime slow down economic reform by  rewarding illegal activity.
Not making it possible for the government to tax such activity

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Criminal organizations such as "Russian mafia" grew rapidly in the 1900s.

Then mafia creates their own economy, and then they expand outside Russia.

They had control 40% over the private companies.

And then they had 60% control over the state owned companies

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Making Moscow one of the central government weak.
They have been having a difficult time to get distant officials to enforce national reform programs.

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Distance Decay- the long distance between places makes it difficult for communication and transportation.
Russia has 11 spans of time zones and 89 regional governments.

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After the Soviet collapsed Russia had to embrace capitalism.
They then remove price controls in 1992 then making the prices of goods increase 250%.

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Since the 1998 crash Russia's economy has slowly recovered.

In spite of this,40% of Russians still far below poverty fine

Some wonder if things maybe been better under Soviets

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Public buy businesses with vouchers to be repaid with future profits

Business failures,unpaid vouchers lead to 1998 economic crash

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This process began in 1992,which sells government owned businesses to private individuals,companies

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Russia's enormous size and widespread criminal activity have made economic reform difficult.

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Russia has struggled to move from a command economy to a market economy.

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Russians faced many hardships since the breakup of the soviet union. Russians tried to move quickly  toward a capitalist system