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Subject(s)

• Socialism—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Socialism—Europe, Eastern [Browse]
• Competition—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Competition—Europe, Eastern [Browse]
• Socialism and culture—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Socialism and culture—Europe, Eastern [Browse]

Editor

• Miklóssy, Katalin [Browse]
• Ilič, Melanie, 1962- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 19. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 19 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores how the concept of "competition", which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise "co-operation", rather than competitive mechanisms. The book considers competition in a wider range of industries and social fields across the Soviet bloc, and shows how the gradual adoption and adaptation of Western practices led to the emergence of more open competitiveness in socialist society. The book includes discussion of the state's view of competition, and focuses especially on how competition operated at the grassroots level. It covers politico-economic reforms and their impact, both overall and at the enterprise level; competition in the cultural sphere; and the huge effect of increasing competition on socialist ways of thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780415747202 (hardback)
• 0415747201 (hardback)

LCCN

2014006782

OCLC

871191869

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