On Feb. 1, 1990, therefore, the government announced a package of anti-inflationary measures.

In Canada the transition was less clearly marked, though Pierre Trudeau had begun to adopt monetarist anti-inflationary measures as early as 1975.

In an attempt to assuage continued agitation from trade unions over the issue, the government said that the increase was not unexpected and that it would consider taking further anti-inflationary measures.

"The program rejects any kind of anti-inflationary measures," Dmitri Volkov, a political editor at the newspaper Segodnya, wrote in a front-page critique of Mr. Zyuganov's proposal.

On 25 August 1959, the government implemented sweeping anti-inflationary measures, devaluing the currency by 75 percent and declaring that all Rp500 and Rp1000 notes would henceforth be worth one tenth of their face value.

Calling Russia's economy "troubled and contradictory," he assured them that the most-stringent phase of anti-inflationary measures was past, and pledged to guide Russia to a new era of economic growth and production and increased social spending.

Some of Peru's economists, including Mr. Paredes and Hernan Garrido-Lecca, argue for anti-inflationary measures like indexing Peruvian salaries to the dollar, raising public utility rates to keep pace with inflation and privatizing state-owned industries that have heavy losses.

Western economists also criticized the move, noting that it contradicted explicit assurances to the International Monetary Fund, which has agreed to lend Russia $10.1 billion over three years on the condition that it adhere to a comprehensive program of market reforms and anti-inflationary measures.

AFTER almost 1,000 days of looking good in the polls, Peru's President, Alan Garcia Perez, has seen his popularity rating crash from a peak of more than 80 percent in 1985 to about 20 percent since he imposed draconian anti-inflationary measures in early September.