Enterprises in the Soviet Union
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Enterprises in the Soviet Union were legal entities engaged in some kind of economic activity: production, distribution, services, and other kinds of works. The term is a general equivalent of the term "company"
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".
Enterprises were classified into the major caterories, according to the major forms of property in the Soviet Union:
- 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:
- Mixed enterprises (смешанные предприятия)
- Rental enterprises (арендные предприятия)
- etc.
