Soviet Union
Work-Standard Accounting Practices: Maoist Funds Balance Sheet
As established earlier in a preceding Entry, the Soviet Union’s accounting system was designed to accommodate the Economic Planners. The methodology enabled Enterprises to maintain and create records in support of Soviet-Type Economic Planning (STEP). It came into being between… Read More ›
Update (18 April 2024)
As part of my upcoming preparations to someday write new Entries for Section Three of Work-Standard Accounting Practices, I have written a new Entry describing the Maoist Balance Sheet. This Maoist-style Balance Sheet is pretty nifty that I am still… Read More ›
Update (17 April 2024)
I am intrigued by the modifications that Chinese Accountants made to the Soviet accounting system under Chairman Zedong as part of the “Cultural Revolution.” The modifications they had made included recording the revenues sources of different Economic Organizations and where… Read More ›
Update (26 March 2024)
Yesterday, in response to the implications posited in Part III of “Investing with State Capitalists and Social Capitalists,” I decided to reread the conclusions which I had made in Work-Standard Accounting Practices (1st Ed.). One significant area of interest concerned… Read More ›
How Kremlingames is introducing Council Democracy to Gamers
Some interesting things happened earlier this week. Kremlingames recently released their latest DLC for China:Mao’s Legacy and disclosed more information on the ongoing development of their upcoming Crisis in the Kremlin 2. The new Ways of Life DLC for China:… Read More ›
Update (16 March 2024)
Got plans to write two posts for today. The first post, which is a new post based on what I had learned so far from Kremlingames’ Discord Server, pertains to the latest DLC of China: Mao’s Legacy. That one is… Read More ›
Crisis in the Kremlin (1991) Review
At the time of this writing, more than thirty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating the geopolitical conditions of post-Soviet Russia. For Western and non-Western observers alike, the Soviet Union’s dissolution has been a subject… Read More ›
Update (9 September 2023)
Bogumil of the ARPLAN Blog once confided to me that he had played Crisis in the Kremlin, the original 1991 version rather than the more recent 2017 remake from Kremlingames. I finally got a chance to play that game in… Read More ›
“Could Soviet women be regular housewives?”
Note: Several months ago, I wrote about Soviet Woman on ARPLAN. I just did not expect to learn that the Russian culture and lifestyle publication Russia Beyond featured an article on the same subject yesterday. Women in the Soviet Union… Read More ›
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