The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History
The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History

Author: Michael Ellman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317457498

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The inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the course of economic and social disintegration. In order to capture the story, the editors compiled a list of questions which they addressed to former top Soviet officials and economic and other policy advisors (both Soviet and foreign) who were privy not only to data on the functioning of the Soviet economy but also to the internal policy debate during the 1980s. This volume assembles the Informants' analyses of key issues and the turning points, and weaves them into a compelling history of systemic collapse. Among the topics investigated are: economic policies in the 1980s; the standard of living: the reliability of Soviet statistics; Gosplan's projections for the economy to the year 2000; was the arms race starving the civilian economy? the role of ideology in supporting the functioning of an economic system; the party's participating in economic management; the influence of foreign advisors; the struggle over a transition program; the functioning and collapse of the supply system, the CMEA, and the foreign trade system.

Advertising and socialism: The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland
Advertising and socialism: The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland

Author: Philip Hanson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1351696319

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This study looks at the tiny but growing volume of consumer advertising even in countries such as the Soviet Union, which had detailed central planning, and substantially more in the recently decentralised Hungarian economy and pre-invasion Czechoslovakia. And of course, outside the Soviet orbit there was the relatively market-oriented and Westernised Yugoslav economy. This suggested that there were after all some interesting questions to answer: Why did an administrative economy like the Soviet one have any domestic consumer advertising at all, and why was it, apparently, growing? What did evidence from Hungary and Yugoslavia suggest about the scale and functions of advertising in more decentralised socialist economies? This title was first published in 1974.

An Economic History of the U.S.S.R.
An Economic History of the U.S.S.R.

Author: Alec Nove

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Study in historical perspective of developments in economic policy in the USSR - covers economic structures and economic administration prior to and during the 1st world war, the position during the 50 years of the communist regime, political leadership of the country, the collective economy, industrialization, political problems, economic growth, etc. Bibliography pp. 389 to 391, and statistical tables.

The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945
The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945

Author: Robert William Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521457705

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Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.

Red Plenty
Red Plenty

Author: Francis Spufford

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1555970419

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"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.

Comparing Economic Systems
Comparing Economic Systems

Author: Andrew Zimbalist

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1483260933

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Comparing Economic Systems: A Political-Economic Approach presents a political-economic approach to the analysis and comparison of different types of economic systems. Full, integrated political-economic case studies of several representative countries, including Japan, Sweden, and France, are given. This book consists of six parts and begins with an overview of some definitions of the main kinds of political and economic systems; theoretical arguments from various points of view about how political and economic systems relate to each other; and the criteria for evaluating different political-economic systems. The next section considers three essentially market capitalist systems: Japan, Sweden, and France. The Soviet Union, a centrally planned, allegedly socialist economy, is examined next. More specifically, Soviet development from 1917 to 1928 and from 1928 to the present is discussed. Central planning in developing countries such as China and Cuba is also explored. Finally, the theory of market socialism is analyzed, citing the cases of Hungary and Yugoslavia. This monograph will be of value to politicians, economists, and economic policymakers.

Unveiling the North Korean Economy
Unveiling the North Korean Economy

Author: Byung-Yeon Kim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107183790

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A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the North Korean economy, exposing its hidden workings through quantitative data analysis and surveys.

What Went Wrong with Perestroika
What Went Wrong with Perestroika

Author: Marshall I. Goldman

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393309041

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A political commentator discusses the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, revealing Gorbachev as a reluctant reformer, who did nothing to counter the nation's overindulgence of heavy industry.

The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928
The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928

Author: Peter J. Boettke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 940173433X

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This book presents a narrative of one of the more interesting utopian experiments in comparative political and economic history: the first decade of the Soviet experience with socialism (1918-1928). Though historical and textual analysis, the book’s goal is to render this experience intelligible, to get at the meaning of the Soviet experience with socialism for comparative political economy today. The book examines the texts of Lenin, Bukharin, and other revolutionaries, as well as the interpretations of contemporary historians of the revolution and the writings of more recent interpreters of Soviet political and economic history. Arguing that the first three years of the Bolshevik regime (1918-1921) constitute an attempt to carry out the Marxian ideal of comprehensive central planning, and that the disastrous results, which all commentators agree occurred, were the inevitable outcome of this Marxian ideal coming into conflict with the economic reality of the coordination problem that all economic systems face, the book draws clear conclusions and elucidates the air of mystery that often surrounds the subject. Offering a radical challenge to contemporary comparative political economy at the level of high theory, applied research, and public policy, this book is appropriate for students and scholars interested in Marxism, economic history, political economy, and Austrian economics.

State Capitalism In Eurasia
State Capitalism In Eurasia

Author: Martin C Spechler

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-06-16

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9813149396

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This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simplistic ideas of 'petro-state' or 'resource dependent.'The book presents three types of state capitalism now established in the former Soviet Union states of Eurasia — crony, dual-sector, and predatory capitalism. It provides first-hand research based on extensive interviewing in the native languages in five of the six. From the political economic perspective, it surveys the source of resources for these authoritarian regimes, their decision-making, and the disposition of government funds, including corruption.