The Political Economy Of Stalinism
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Author | : Paul R. Gregory |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521533676 |
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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.
Author | : Pollack Ethan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Marxian economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Alec Nove |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136629483 |
Download Was Stalin Really Necessary? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.
Author | : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300122802 |
Download Political Economy of Socialist Realism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism.
Author | : Paul Gregory |
Publisher | : Hoover Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817928162 |
Download Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953—the height of the Stalinist regime—this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Most of the authors have worked with these archives since they were opened.
Author | : Alec Nove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09-28 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : 9780415684965 |
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First published in 1964, this title deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. It evaluates the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency.
Author | : Joseph Stalin |
Publisher | : Newcomb Livraria Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1952-01-01 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 3989881949 |
Download Economic problems of Socialism in the USSR Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In one of his last works written in 1952, Stalin addresses various economic challenges facing the Soviet Union in its pursuit of socialism. He discusses topics ranging from commodity production under socialism to the role of the law of value, offering insights and solutions based on Marxist-Leninist theory.
Author | : Oscar Sanchez-Sibony |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139867881 |
Download Red Globalization Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy of global economic forces, tracked the same path as other countries in the world, moving from 1930s autarky to the globalizing processes of the postwar period. In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, he questions the very foundations of the Cold War narrative as a contest between superpowers in a bipolar world. Far from an economic force in the world, the Soviets managed only to become dependent providers of energy to the rich world, and second-best partners to the global South.
Author | : J. Hughes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1996-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230379982 |
Download Stalinism in a Russian Province Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the theoretical approaches of moral and political economy to Stalin's peasant policy, Hughes reevaluates the causes and processes involved in the great political, economic and social changes in the Soviet countryside. Rather than a bipolarized conflict between state and peasant, he profiles the socially variegated response of different peasant groups to collectivization and dekulakization and argues that it was as much a process involving social conflict between peasants.
Author | : Peter Nolan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 1995-10-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230378366 |
Download China's Rise, Russia's Fall Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'A lively and well written comparison of economic transformation in China and the USSR/Russia, combining a good knowledge of the Chinese economy with a radical critique of Western transition orthodoxy, this very topical and very controversial book will be useful reading for students, administrators in many countries and international agencies, and business people.' - Michael Ellman, University of Amsterdam `Peter Nolan makes a pungent challenge to conventional wisdom by arguing that the Chinese approach to system reform has been vastly more successful than the shock therapy applied to Russia. His book is based on extensive comparison and deep insight into the political economy of both countries.' - John Toye, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex This book is the first attempt to analyse systematically the dramatic contrast in the results of post-Stalinist reform in China and Russia. It argues that there emerged a 'transition orthodoxy' about how to reform the communist systems of political economy. However, it was deeply flawed. The advice which flowed from this orthodoxy was the primary cause of the Soviet disaster. The decision not to follow it was the main reason for China's enormous success in its reform programme.