 An example of a production association was the Kazan Aircraft Production Association.The official term for economic units in the Soviet Union was ""предприятие"", or "enterprise".With the exception of the brief period of New Economic Policy, the Kosygin reform and the final period of "perestroika" before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the terms company, business, corporation, etc., were considered to be attributes of capitalism that were inapplicable to the Soviet socialist economy.