Talk:Second economy of the Soviet Union

Article life
I noticed that the subject seems to be ridiculously missing from wikipedia, despite the significant research published. I got my brain frozen when I started this article, due to huge amount and complexity of material. I intend to process piecewise, since I am not an expert in economy, just a wikipedian whose curiosity is detrimental to his mental health :-) - üser:Altenmann >t 20:00, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Co-op markets; another view of the Second Economy
I wonder if this could be included as part of this discussion. In his book "The Russian Revolution, A People's Tragedy", Orlando Figes describes in some detail the ways in which a barter market continued to exist under Communism, even to the extent that there was one a short distance from the Kremlin which, he claims, was used by Kremlin officials, despite them being technically illegal. This presented problems for the Bolsheviks because during the Russian Civil War, farmers would still bring some of their produce to the cities to sell directly, in defiance of War Communism. Flanker235 (talk) 02:41, 5 June 2016 (UTC)