1st Edition

Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev The Sovnarkhoz Reform

By Nataliya Kibita Copyright 2013
246 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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 Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the... Read more

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

Biography

Nataliya Kibita is an Honorary Research Fellow and seminar tutor in the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She is also a teaching fellow at the Univesity of Edinburgh, UK.