ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN POLAND & RUSSIA

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Term Paper Title	ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN POLAND & RUSSIA
# of Words	1180
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.72

ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN POLAND & RUSSIA

     Since approximately 1988, Poland and the republic of Russia (formerly Soviet Union) have gone through major economic reform.  The main emphasis of this paper is to identify the different approaches that the governments in these two countries have taken and to look at the positive and negative effects that these drastic changes have had on their economies.  Specifically, the question asked in this paper is, "Why has the economic transition in Poland been more successful than in Russia?  We will be looking at what factors are being used to measure this success and what their prospects are for the future.
     With almost half of the world stayed under the communist ties, Poland took risk and applied revolutionary economic reforms under which it started closing inefficient plants, ended subsidies for plants working at a loss, introduces mass privatization and lifted price controls.  The shocking therapy successfully introduced Poland to the path of rapid economic growth and made it the reform model for other post-communist countries.  Also, to increase the educational quality and adjust its profiles to the present labor market needs, in 1998 Polish government implemented the education system reform.  The modifications, including every field of schoolwork, brought the system closer to the western education standards and gave Polish students, and well as their teachers greater flexibility in shaping their career.
     For Decades, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union swore that the red tide initiated within its borders would sweep the world covering every nation with the ideals of Marxism.  Karl Marx’s promise of a communist utopia was embraced by the governments of many nations and his philosophy became one of the prevalent worldviews of the 20th century.  However, in the late 1980’s, the leaders of the Communist Party bowed to a revolution of different type.  This concession was the result of the reform efforts of Mikhail Gorbachev as the party agreed to end its monopoly on power in the Soviet Union.  As the world enters a new decade, Karl Marx’s bold statement appears destined to be proven wrong.  After a decade of massive social upheaval in countries behind the Iron Curtain, the communist philosophy became a system of a bygone era.  The Soviet Union, the nation with the world’s largest land mass and the leader of the communist world, has suddenly had its political power base challenged and its economy shaken to the core...

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