Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform

ISBN-13: 9780415605687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 202 str.

Nataliya Kibita

Opis

The Sovnakhoz reform of 1957 was designed by Khrushchev to improve efficiency in the Soviet economic system by decentralising economic decision making from all-union branch ministries in Moscow to the governments of the individual republics and regional economic councils. Based on extensive original research, including in unpublished archival material, this book examines the reforms, discussing the motivations for them, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base, exploring how the process of reform was implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analysing why the reforms, which were reversed in 1959, failed.

Spis treści

Foreword Geoffrey Swain  Preface  Introduction  Part 1: In a Search for a More Efficient Economic Administration  1. 1953-1956: Exploring the Horizons for Administrative Reorganization  2. XX Congress – December 1956 CC CPSU Plenum: The Height of Expectations  3. The Sovnarkhoz Reform  Part 2: Decentralization of Decision-making: Hopes and Disillusionment  4. Setting New Elements  5. First Disillusionment: Plan for 1958  6. Republican Budgetary Rights  7. Decentralizing the Supply System: Losing Control over Resources  8. Gosplan of Ukraine: Setting its Authority in the Republic  Part 3: Recentralizing Economic Administration  9. The Turning Point  10. November 1962 CC CPSU Plenum: Giving up on the Reform?  11. Recentralization in Ukraine  12. Epilogue  13. Conclusion

O autorze

Nataliya Kibita is an Honorary Research Fellow and seminar tutor in the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She is also a teaching fellow at the Univesity of Edinburgh, UK.