Soviet economic management under Khrushchev : the Sovnarkhoz reform / Nataliya Kibita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kibita, Nataliya.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 89.

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decentralization in management--Soviet Union.

Decentralization in management.

Decentralization in management--Ukraine.

Regional economics--Soviet Union.

Regional economics.

Central planning--Soviet Union.

Central planning.

Administrative economic councils.

Soviet Union.

Central planning--Ukraine.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1956-1958.

Economic policy.

Ukraine--Economic policy.

Ukraine.

Administrative economic councils--Soviet Union.

Administrative economic councils--Ukraine.

Physical Description:

xxii, 202 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

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 Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base.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. Book jacket.

Contents:

In a search for a more efficient economic administration. 1953-1956: Exploring the horizons for administrative reorganization ; XX Congress

December 1956 CC CPSU Plenum: the height of expectations ; The Sovnarkhoz reform

Decentralization of decision making: hopes and disillusionment. Setting new elements ; First disillusionment: plan for 1958 ; Republican budgetary rights ; Decentralizing the supply system: losing control over resources ; Gosplan of Ukraine: setting its authority in the republic

Recentralizaing economic administration. The turning point ; November 1962 CC CPSU Plenum: giving up on the reform? ; Recentralization in Ukraine.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780415605687

0415605687

OCLC:

727702724