This is a handbook aimed at companies and businessmen doing business in the Soviet Union. Among the topics covered are: the legal status of joint-ventures set up in Soviet territory with foreign partners; the legal forms of participation; the procedures for setting up joint ventures between Soviet and Comecon countries on the one hand, and Soviet and capitalist countries on the other; the economic laws and the labour regulations affecting such ventures.

Study in historical perspective of developments in economic policy in the USSR - covers economic structures and economic administration prior to and during the 1st world war, the position during the 50 years of the communist regime, political leadership of the country, the collective economy, industrialization, political problems, economic growth, etc. Bibliography pp. 389 to 391, and statistical tables.

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