Communism


Recent Articles about Communism

Full Circle

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Sep 1, 1990

Businessman returns to Poland determined to transform a Communist monument into a center of capitalism.  Read more

Update: Crime And Punishment

By Joshua Hyatt |  Feb 1, 1987

Raphael Gregorian is hardly the portrait of a victorious man. He works out of a windowless basement office. His small company, which once had sales of a...  Read more

The Ceo Who Came In From The Cold

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jan 1, 1986

U.S. exporter Ralph Gregorian was kicked out of the Soviet Union on spy charges he says are outrageous. So he did what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do:...  Read more

The Cold Shoulder

By Don Van Tuyl |  Apr 1, 1986

I commend Ralph Gregorian's courage and determination in taking on the government of the Soviet Union. Few governments, let alone men, have enough courag...  Read more

The Greening Of The Guard

By Joel Kotkin |  Sep 1, 1986

The Red Guard generation enlisted by Mao to eradicate all vestiges of capitalism is now in the vanguard of China's entrepreneurial class.  Read more

Sign of the Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jun 1, 1990

U.S. entrepreneur markets Soviet souvenir tee-shirts in Russia.  Read more

Counterrevolutionaries

By Kevin Brackett |  Oct 1, 1987

What Jerry Gorde displayed ("Chairman Jerry's Cultural Revolution," August) was immaturity and an unwillingness to let people run their own lives. What h...  Read more

USSR yellow pages

By Inc. staff |  Apr 1, 1991

Available Soviet Independent Business Directory with key information on Soviet companies.  Read more

Silicon Steppe

By Craig R. Waters |  Jan 1, 1984

The prevailing winds of technological change may blow from West to East, but a growing number of U.S. companies are riding the countercurrents, turning co...  Read more

Even Japan Is No Paradise For Small Business

Nov 1, 1981

The Japanese Communist party's periodic festivals are among the best places to meet small businessmen who are willing to talk about their problems. Japan...  Read more

Accidental Tourist

By Leslie Brokaw |  Aug 1, 1990

International joint venture builds apartments for visiting American executives in Moscow.  Read more

Updates

By Inc. staff |  Oct 1, 2006

A Visit to the Past December 2005 Inc. named Ping Fu its Read more

The Andropov Connection

May 1, 1983

To hear Lev Zak tell it, Russians just can't get no respect. "You wouldn't believe how bad consumer products and services are there," he says. "I mean it'...  Read more

A Soviet Case For Entrepreneurship

Aug 1, 1983

If you traveled from Monticello to Moscow, you would cover more than 5,000 miles. Ideologically, the distance from the symbol of Jeffersonian democracy to...  Read more

The Chinese Way Of Business

By Joel Kotkin |  Jun 1, 1987

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  Read more

Antitrust Slowdown

By Steven H. Blackwell |  Jul 1, 1986

As a very small and very independent businessman, I take the strongest exception possible to the hysterical claptrap of "Busting the Trustbusters" (Washin...  Read more

Building Strong Bones

By Anne Murphy |  Oct 1, 1991

New business sets out to build longer, stronger bones.  Read more

Kachajian's Rebellion

By Lucien Rhodes |  Oct 1, 1986

The story of how one small manufacturere spent six years fighting to save his business from the deadening hand of government export controls -- and won. Sort...  Read more

Who's Thinking About Exporting?

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1992

Chart showing percentage of companies interested in various exporting regions.  Read more

The Capitalist Road

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Nov 1, 1989

Two Russian companies have installed the country's first employee stock ownership plans.  Read more

The New Yankee Traders

By Joel Kotkin |  Mar 1, 1986

Chinese-Americans are using family ties to beat the Japanese and Big Business for a share of the burgeoning Chinese market.  Read more

Rambling for Gems

By Emily Barker |  Jul 1, 2000

Here's how one woman turned an impromptu vacation into a thriving jewelry design and manufacturing business.  Read more

Cold War

By John R. Franks |  Jan 1, 1987

"Kachajian's Rebellion" (October) reminded me of a similar experience I had at a company I managed. In the spring of 1983, the company received an unsoli...  Read more

National Insecurity

By C. Scott Kulicke |  Dec 1, 1986

As chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee described in "Kachajian's Rebellion," I thought your readers might like an update. The government still h...  Read more

The Stubborn Eventually Prosper

By Christopher McDougall |  Sep 1, 2003

When a beanbag salesman and a Nevada gambling man join forces to make millions off a Russian miracle fabric, something bizarre is bound to happen. It did, an...  Read more

Back in the U.S.S.R.

By Doron Swade |  Jun 15, 1996

A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to ours during the Cold War.  Read more