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1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Summary |
Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that the system failed not because of Stalin and later leaders, but because of the economic system. It pinpoints the reasons for failure such as poor planning, unreliable supplies, preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises as well as the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate. Although the command system was the most significant human experiment of the twentieth century, its basic contradictions and inherent flaws would re-surface if it were to be repeated.--Publisher description. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index. |
| Contents |
The jockey or the horse? -- Collectivization, accumulation, and power -- The principles of governance -- Investment, wages, and fairness -- Visions and control figures -- Planners versus producers -- Creating Soviet industry -- Operational planning -- Ruble control : money, prices, and budgets -- The destruction of the Soviet administrative-command economy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- Sources.
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Soviet Union. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Sources.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- Sources.
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Politics and government. |
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Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
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Bureaucracy. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gregory, Paul R. Political economy of Stalinism. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521826284 0521533678 (DLC) 2003043586 (OCoLC)51726676 |
| ISBN |
0511062575 (electronic book) |
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9780511062575 (electronic book) |
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051112144X (electronic book) |
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9780511121449 (electronic book) |
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9780511615856 (electronic book) |
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051161585X (electronic book) |
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9780511071034 (electronic book) |
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0511071035 (electronic book) |
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1280161442 |
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9781280161445 |
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9786610161447 |
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6610161445 |
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0521826284 |
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9780521826280 |
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0521533678 (paperback) |
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9780521533676 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9780511062575 (electronic bk.) |
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