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This is a Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report (JPRS-UPA-90-053) dated 1 May 1990. It contains a translation of an article by Lev Tsvetkov, chief specialist in the USSR Council of Ministers Information Department, from the Moscow journal ZHURNALIST. Tsvetkov criticizes one-sided Soviet press coverage of price increases and trade union protests. He urges journalists to cover the move to market relations within the context of the government's economic recovery program. It mentions a UFO only in passing.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 ## Document 6 of 8 and Prices,'''The Market--the Great Uniter of Nations,'''The Difficult Path to the Market,'' and ''The Market or the Barracks''... 8. In reading and preparing such articles, we gradually master the phenomenon. First we understood that the market--is not the bazaar. What is even a broader conception--the 'consumer market''--is merely a part, a fragment, or sector... 'Why?' asks the reader. Giving the appearance that--you see, that the 'why'' has been clear to us all along, we began to write on other elements: the market of the means of production, valuable papers, the work force, products of intellectual labor, and so on. 9. Piecing together from this mosaic a likeness of the whole, the reader began to pose other questions as well: How do the parts interact with one another, and how does the market (in the very broadest sense of the word) operate? Our brother, the all-knowing newspaperman, did not falter, and bravely began to expound on the 'alternative economy.' Once, he says, we have a market--the alternative economy-- it will not operate like the administrative-command economy. On the contrary: there will be competition--as opposed to monopolism; free agreements--as opposed to the Plan; and market prices--as opposed to centrally-established prices. 10. The discerning reader, however, was not entirely satisfied with an argument "'from the opposite.'" The people did not want to hear copy-book maxims--this is a question of a serious choice. But the press, puzzled, not to say dismayed, by the complexity of the problems heaped up upon it, and urged on by the increasing politization of social processes, did not, with rare exceptions provide clear-cut answers to the readers' increasingly troubling question: How to enter market relations without breaking your neck? 11. The phenomenon, served up piecemeal in the publications, was perhaps for the first time presented to us and the readers in all its complexity only in the draft platform of the CPSU Central Committee for the 28th Party Congress (PRAVDA, 13 February). A draft is a draft, and the system of views and approaches expounded in it will no doubt be subjected to some kind of amendments. It will be attacked in terms of content as well. For example, can the proponents of the rigid formula, ''the plan or the market'' really agree with those posing the question of a ''planned-market economy''? But with all this, the draft provides an impression of ''construction'' and the internal ties between the elements of the market. The phenomenon will come through more precisely out of it. ## 12. BETWEEN THE FACT AND THE PHENOMENON
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.