Sentence examples for soviet standard from inspiring English sources

The isotope, cesium 137, was measured in one village by the International Atomic Energy Agency at a level exceeding the standard that the Soviet Union used as a gauge to recommend abandoning land surrounding the Chernobyl reactor, and at another location not precisely identified by the agency at more than double the Soviet standard.

Kosygin would prove to be a very competent administrator, with the Soviet standard of living rising considerably due to his moderately reformist policy.

Prices for items including food and transport rose by 100 300 percent, while the Soviet standard of living decreased sharply and the state budget deficit increased by an estimated 20 30 percent of GNP.

While the Soviet standard of living increased greatly in the ten years after Khrushchev's fall, much of the increase was due to industrial progress; agriculture continued to lag far behind, resulting in regular agricultural crises, especially in 1972 and 1975.

The plan envisaged a massive increase in the Soviet standard of living, with Kosygin proclaiming a growth of 40 percent for the population's cash income in his speech to the congress.

He liked the work, which paid well by Soviet standards.

By Soviet standards Medvedev lives in limbo--a misfit and oddball with no regular job.

Nor is it a totalitarian state; by Soviet standards it is an amicable federation.

"Karimov thinks he is an economist," explains a foreign diplomat, "and by Soviet standards he is.

By Soviet standards, Russia is incomparably freer than it used to be.

The Kremlin was building a new city 40 miles from Chernobyl -- just outside the depopulated Exclusion Zone -- a town unimaginably luxurious by Soviet standards.