Features of the initial stage of mass privatization in the Smolensk region: dynamics and socio-economic consequences

the privatization carried out in Russia in the 1990s can be divided into several stages that significantly differed in the goals set, the methods used, regulatory and legal regulation, quantitative indicators, and the results obtained. The article presents the results of an analysis of the economic and legal features of privatization in the second half of 1992, when citizens of the Russian Federation and the Smolensk region, in particular, witnessed and participated in the unprecedented scale and timing of the process of redistribution of state assets as part of the transition of the country's economy from a planned administrative to a market management system. The contradictions that developed at that time, such as the discrepancy between the economic expediency of privatization and political goals, between the interests of society and individual social groups, ignoring the peculiarities of the country's development in previous decades, violation of privatization legislation to date have a significant impact on socio-economic relations in society.

corporatization of enterprises, small privatization, mass privatization, privatization, property, Smolensk region, economic interests