1990年苏联经济形势总的特点是,旧的经济和组织机制被打破,而在市场条件下发挥作用的新的机制尚未建立起来;国民经济失控;物资供应系统被破坏;企业经济组织间的联系中断;经济形势十分严峻。而且除经济问题外,还面临复杂的社会问题,尤其是难以收拾的民族问题。正如戈尔巴乔夫去年11月16日在最高苏维埃紧急会议上所说的那样,苏联当前“经济和社会领域以及消费市场的形势不仅没有改善,反而更加恶化了,政治形势也恶化了,民族关系更趋紧张。” The general characteristics of the economic situation in the Soviet Union in 1990 were that the old economic and organizational mechanisms were broken and new mechanisms that had a role in market conditions had not yet been established; the national economy was out of control; the material supply system was destroyed; and the links among the economic organizations of enterprises Interrupted; the economic situation is very serious. In addition to the economic problems, it faces complicated social problems, especially the difficult national problems. As Gorbachev said at the Supreme Soviet emergency meeting on November 16 last year, the current “situation in the economic and social fields as well as the consumer market in the Soviet Union has not only failed to improve but has worsened and the political situation has worsened. Tensions are getting worse. ”