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The political economy of Stalinism : evidence from the Soviet secret archives /
Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that the system failed not because of Stalin and later leaders, but because of the economic system. It pinpoints the reasons for failure such as poor planning, u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that the system failed not because of Stalin and later leaders, but because of the economic system. It pinpoints the reasons for failure such as poor planning, unreliable supplies, preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises as well as the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate. Although the command system was the most significant human experiment of the twentieth century, its basic contradictions and inherent flaws would re-surface if it were to be repeated.--Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511062575 9780511062575 051112144X 9780511121449 9780511615856 051161585X 9780511071034 0511071035 1280161442 9781280161445 9786610161447 6610161445 1107137977 9781107137974 0511205910 9780511205910 0511308663 9780511308666 |