Restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union
The restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union began in 1956 with the dismantlement of the dictatorship of the proletariat and its replacement with the "state of the whole people" under the revisionist clique of Nikita Khrushchev. As the proletarian dictatorship is essential for socialism, a major aspect of socialist construction was lost. At the latest, the 1957 economic reform abolished central planning and made it ministerial.[1]
In 1958, the Soviet revisionists privatized the machine tractor stations, turning them from a tool of socialism to the private ownership over the means of production at individual cooperatives. The 1965 Soviet economic reform, introduced by Alexei Kosygin and Evsei Liberman, further tore away at the remains of economic planning and introduced additional profit motives.
The restoration of capitalism was fully completed in the USSR in 1991 with the formal dissolution of the Union and start of open bourgeois governance.