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The political economy of Stalinism : = evidence from the Soviet secret archives /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The political economy of Stalinism :/ Paul R. Gregory.
Reminder of title:	evidence from the Soviet secret archives /
Author:	Gregory, Paul R.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Bureaucracy - Sources. - History - Soviet Union -
Subject:	Soviet Union - Economic conditions - 1945-1955. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615856
ISBN:	9780511615856 (ebook)

The political economy of Stalinism : = evidence from the Soviet secret archives /
Gregory, Paul R.,

The political economy of Stalinism :evidence from the Soviet secret archives /Paul R. Gregory. - 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

ISBN: 9780511615856 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1447098
Bureaucracy
--History--Soviet Union--Sources.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

799034
Soviet Union
--Economic conditions--1945-1955.

LC Class. No.: HC335.3 / .G74 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 330.947/084

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