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With the exception of the brief period of NEP and the final period of perestroika before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the terms company, business, corporation, etc., were considered to be attribudes of capitalism and inapplicable to the socialist economy, and there was virtually no private enterprise in the Soviet Union during most of the Soviet history. The official term was "предприятие", or "enterprise". See also NEP. In Norse mythology, Nep was the father of Nanna. ... Poster showing Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika ( , Russian: ) is the Russian word (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. ... The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ... Look up company in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... A corporation is a legal person which, while being composed of natural persons, exists completely separately from them. ... Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are mostly privately owned and in which prices of capital and commodities are determined in a largely free market which operates in the pursuit of profit, with investments being determined by private decision. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... Look up Enterprise in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Enterprises were classified into the major caterories, according to the major forms of property in the Sovuet Union: The economy of the Soviet Union was based on a system of state ownership and administrative planning. ...

• Based on the property of Soviet citizens
  • Individual enterprises
  • Family enterprises
• Based on the collective property
  • Collective enterprises
  • Production cooperatives
  • Various incorporated businesses: partnerships, joint-stock companies, etc.
  • Enterprises of public (общественные) or religious (религиозные) organizations
• Based on the state property
  • Union state enterprises
  • Republican state enterprises
  • Communal state enterprises

There were also other types: A joint stock company is a special kind of partnership. ...

• Mixed enterprises (смешанные предприятия)
• Rental enterprises (арендные предприятия)
• etc.

See also

• Economy of the Soviet Union