ABSTRACT
The soviet system collapsed around the soviet enterprise, radically transforming the environment within which the enterprise functioned without having any immediate impact on the internal structures and practices of the enterprise. The disintegration of the soviet system was at the same time the process of subordination of the Russian economy to the global accumulation of capital through its integration into the capitalist world market. The Russian enterprise had to find ways of surviving in this new environment, on the basis of its inherited social and material resources.1
