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The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy : an Economic History of the USSR From 1945.
Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev''s clumsy hands? Does its failure me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Postwar world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Editorial Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Starting Point: the Stalinist Economic System and the Aftermath of War; The inheritance from the 1930s: the Soviet economic planning system; The aftermath of war; Post-war recovery: the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1946-50; Priorities and the defence sector; Agriculture; Economic organisation and policy more generally; Living conditions and the first stirrings of acquisitive dissent; Economic relations with the outside world.
- 2. Khrushchev: Hope Rewarded, 1953-60Policy-making and power; Khrushchev''s initiatives; Agriculture; The Sovnarkhoz reform; Foreign trade, aid and technology transfer; Wages and the welfare of workers; Economic debate; 3. Khrushchev: Things Fall Apart, 1960-64; Policies: ''catching up'' and the seven-year plan; Agriculture; Foreign trade and external relations; Incomes and consumption; Economic debate; Khrushchev and the economy in retrospect; 4. A New Start: Brezhnev, 1964-73; Early days; The 1965 reform; The improvement in growth; Agriculture; Soviet citizens as consumers.
- Foreign trade and paymentsEconomic debate; Conclusion; 5. The ''Era of Stagnation'': 1973-82; The growth slowdown; Policies and reforms; Agriculture; Foreign economic relations; The late Brezhnev era in retrospect; 6. Three Funerals and a Coronation: November 1982 to March 1985; Economic discussion; Policies; Outcomes; 7. Gorbachev and Catastroika; Acceleration, discipline and the alcohol campaign, 1985-86; Forward to reform, 1987-89; 8. The End-game, 1989-91; Accelerating political change; Economic policies; Breaking up a single economic space; Economic outcomes; Western assistance.
- Public opinion9. The Soviet Economy in Retrospect; Soviet post-war economic performance in comparative perspective; Why did growth slow down?; The final output collapse; Annex: Measuring changes in productivity; Bibliography; Index.