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Subject(s)

• Decentralization in management—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Decentralization in management—Ukraine [Browse]
• Regional economics—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Central planning—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Central planning—Ukraine [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Economic policy—1956-1958 [Browse]
• Ukraine—Economic policy [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 89 [More in this series]
• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 89. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Sovnarkhoz 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 Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base. The book explores how the process of reform was implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analyses why the reform, which was reversed in 1959, failed. Overall, the book reveals a great deal about the workings, and the shortcomings, of the Soviet economic system at its height. The Sovnarkhoz 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 Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base. The book explores how the process of reform was implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analyses why the reform, which was reversed in 1959, failed. Overall, the book reveals a great deal about the workings, and the shortcomings, of the Soviet economic system at its height.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 9, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

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

ISBN

• 1-138-18295-8
• 1-135-04722-7
• 0-203-50319-8
• 1-135-04723-5
• 9780203503195

OCLC

• 854521042
• 853455218
• 855906778

Doi

10.4324/9780203503195

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