Download or read book The Political Economy of Stalinism written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.

Download or read book Planning in the Soviet Union written by Judith Pallot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981 and based on the authors’ own research, this book provides a comprehensive review of planning in the Soviet Union up until the early 1980s for both geographers and Soviet specialists. Planning was particularly important in the Soviet Union since not only most spatial change, but all economic planning was the product of a systematic socio-political ideology. Planning was therefore the key to understanding the Soviet economy, society and spatial change. When it was first published, this was the first study in which the focus had been directed specifically at spatial planning in the Soviet Union in any systematic way.

Download or read book Soviet Industrial Planning Since Stalin written by Hersschel E. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Was Stalin Really Necessary written by Alec Nove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.

Download or read book Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR written by David Granick and published by Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development Century written by Stephen J. Macekura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.

Download or read book The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7 The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War 1937 1939 written by R. W. Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone: beginning from the Great Terror, it ends with the Hitler-Stalin pact and the outbreak of World War II in Europe. During that time, Soviet society was repeatedly mobilised against internal and external enemies, and the economy provided one of the main arenas for the struggle. This was expressed in waves of repression, intensive rearmament, the increased regimentation of the workforce and the widespread use of forced labour.

Download or read book Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth 1933 1952 written by Eugène Zaleski and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933-1952

Download or read book The Soviet Economy Since Stalin written by Harry Schwartz and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott. This book was released on 1965 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary written by Robert Bird and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.

Download or read book Stalin s Industrial Revolution written by Hiroaki Kuromiya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed English socio-political history of Stalin's industrial revolution, during the initial Five-Year plan, depicts a period of sacrifice for the entire nation.

Download or read book The Results of the First Five Year Plan written by Joseph Stalin and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soviet Industry from Stalin to Gorbachev written by Joseph S. Berliner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Economic Reform in the Soviet Union written by Abraham Katz and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the role of the communist political party in the application of the 1965 economic reform in the USSR, with particular reference to the reform of the industrial planning and industrial management systems - assesses political aspects and economic implications, analyses present and potential trends from centrally planned economy toward decentralization, and covers the extent of political leadership support and managerial support of the reform, implications for industrial growth, etc. Bibliography pp. 205 to 230 and references.

Download or read book Farm to Factory written by Robert C. Allen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history. Moreover, by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation. Although the Russian economy began to develop in the late nineteenth century based on wheat exports, modern economic growth proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to successful Five Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during the 1930s and raised living standards, especially for the many peasants who moved to cities. A sudden drop in fertility due to the education of women and their employment outside the home also facilitated growth. While highlighting the previously underemphasized achievements of Soviet planning, Farm to Factory also shows, through methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst excesses--such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture--did little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original thought pursued wasteful investments.

Download or read book The Industrialization of Soviet Russia in the First Half Century written by John Pearce Hardt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay on the industrialization and economic growth performance of the USSR during the first 50 years of soviet rule and on the 'stalinist' conceptual economic model for economic planning. References and statistical tables.

Download or read book The Great Stalin Five year Plan written by Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: