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Author Kibita, Nataliya

Title Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I The search for a more efficient economic administration; 1 1953-1956: exploring the horizons for administrative reorganization; 2 XX CPSU congress -- December 1956 CC CPSU Plenum: the height of expectations; 3 The Sovnarkhoz reform; PART II 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 resources8 Gosplan of Ukraine: setting its authority in the republic; PART III Recentralizing economic administration; 9 The turning point; 10 November 1962 CC CPSU Plenum: giving up on the reform?; 11 Recentralization in Ukraine; Epilogue; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 Based on extensive original research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform, discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev's attempt to strengthen his own power base.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 ana
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Subject Decentralization in management -- Soviet Union
Decentralization in management -- Ukraine
Regional economics -- Soviet Union
Central planning -- Soviet Union
Central planning -- Ukraine
Central planning
Decentralization in management
Regional economics
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135047238
1135047235