1. M. S. Gorbachev, ‘Korennoi vopros ekonomicheskoi politiki partii’, Pravda, 12 June 1985, p. 1.
2. See Ed Hewett, Reforming the Soviet Economy, Washington: Brookings Institution, 1988, pp. 306, 311–12.
3. M. S. Gorbachev’s Report to the CPSU Central Committee plenum in Pravda, 26 June 1987 (Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 39 (26), 1987, pp. 11–14). See also the CPSU’s Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986–1990…, Moscow: Novosti, 1985, pp. 16–17.
4. M. S. Gorbachev in Pravda, 28 November 1989, in Peter Frank, ‘The End of Perestroika’, The World Today, 46 (5), May 1990, pp. 87–9 at p. 87.
5. On this, see the interview with Zhores Medvedev, ‘Innovation and Conservatism in the New Soviet Leadership’, New Left Review, No. 157, May –June 1986, pp. 5–26 at pp. 13–14.