State of the consumer market in the USSR (late 1970s - early 1990s)

The article examines the state of the consumer sectors of the USSR economy since the end of the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is noted that despite the efforts made by the Communist party and the government to increase production and improve the quality of consumer goods, the shortage of many types of goods and services was not only not diminished, but acquired a tendency to increase. The widening gap between circulation of money and commodity supply imbalances only strengthened imbalances in the domestic market.