Investment And Reindustrialization In The Soviet Economy
Investment And Reindustrialization In The Soviet Economy

Author: Boris Z. Rumer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0429716575

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Investment activity in the Soviet Union is presently undergoing a decline hitherto unknown in the history of the nation: The growth of capital investment has stopped, while levels of production have fallen. One important factor in this phenomenon is the Soviet policy of reindustrialization—shifting new investments into the expansion and improvement of existing facilities—which severely limits capital available for new construction. In this book, Dr. Rumer examines current Soviet investment policies and assesses their impact on economic development, especially in Siberia. Reindustrialization is intended to combine more rapid amortization for updating and retooling, growth in the volume of industrial output, and minimal capital investment. However, concludes Dr. Rumer, this investment pattern hinders the development of Siberia and thus reinforces the spatial polarization of fuel-energy and raw-material resources in the east of the country and the manufacturing industry in the west, with serious consequences for Soviet strategic/military vulnerability and for the Soviet economy.

Soviet Society Under Gorbachev
Soviet Society Under Gorbachev

Author: Maurice Friedberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1315493632

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The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and communications.

Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic Development
Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic Development

Author: Boris Z. Rumer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1040278256

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The economic, political and geopolitical future of Central Asia has been subject to speculation since the region emerged from under the Soviet banner. With contributions from Central Asian, Russian, US and Japanese experts, this book gives an analysis of the issues and choices facing the region.

The Soviet Far East
The Soviet Far East

Author: Allan Rodgers

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1000882012

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The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East. The region is explored in all its geographical and economic complexity. Chapters on the state of its development under Gorbachev (and his programme of investment) are supplemented by examinations of the history of its settlement, analysis of its unique environment and the threats which economic growth might pose for it, and of the region’s vital strategic significance to the Soviet Union.

Policy-Making for Russian Industry
Policy-Making for Russian Industry

Author: Stephen Fortescue

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-03-27

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1349141720

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A description of the contemporary Russian economy on the basis of an analysis of economic policy-making structures and procedures. The empirical detail is concentrated in the heavy industry sector, although the relationships between all sectors receive attention. All sources of policy-making input are examined - the presidency and central governmental agencies, sectoral state agencies, industrial representative associations, parliament and the regions, and individual enterprises. Policy-making procedures receive considerable attention, as part of an effort to distinguish sharply between formal and informal styles of policy making.

Soviet Economic Growth
Soviet Economic Growth

Author: Gur Ofer

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This survey of modern Soviet economic growth is based almost exclusively on Western works and does not include direct references to Soviet scholarly work. It is directed to the general public of economists, and therefore contains a section on sources of economic information about the Soviet Union and several subsections, such as the one describing the basics of the operation of the Soviet system, that are only indirectly related to the main issue. Contents: Introduction; Availability and Reliability of Information; The Growth Record; Structural Changes; The Socialist System and its Growth Strategy; R & D and Technological Change; The R & D Sector; Why did Growth Rates Decline?; Production Function Estimates; Evaluation and Conclusion-or, can The Trend be Reversed? (KR).