The Political Economy Of Stalinism

Author : Paul R. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533676
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Stalinism written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.

Author : Pollack Ethan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy written by Pollack Ethan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300122802
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy of Socialist Realism written by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism.

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136629483
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Stalin Really Necessary? written by Alec Nove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.

Author : Paul Gregory
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0817928162
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy written by Paul Gregory and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953—the height of the Stalinist regime—this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Most of the authors have worked with these archives since they were opened.

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415684965
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Stalin Really Necessary? (Routledge Revivals) written by Alec Nove and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this title deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. It evaluates the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency.

Author : J. Hughes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379982
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalinism in a Russian Province written by J. Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the theoretical approaches of moral and political economy to Stalin's peasant policy, Hughes reevaluates the causes and processes involved in the great political, economic and social changes in the Soviet countryside. Rather than a bipolarized conflict between state and peasant, he profiles the socially variegated response of different peasant groups to collectivization and dekulakization and argues that it was as much a process involving social conflict between peasants.

Author : Joseph Stalin
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN 13 : 3989881949
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic problems of Socialism in the USSR written by Joseph Stalin and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on 1952-01-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In one of his last works written in 1952, Stalin addresses various economic challenges facing the Soviet Union in its pursuit of socialism. He discusses topics ranging from commodity production under socialism to the role of the law of value, offering insights and solutions based on Marxist-Leninist theory.

Author : Peter Nolan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378366
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Rise, Russia's Fall written by Peter Nolan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lively and well written comparison of economic transformation in China and the USSR/Russia, combining a good knowledge of the Chinese economy with a radical critique of Western transition orthodoxy, this very topical and very controversial book will be useful reading for students, administrators in many countries and international agencies, and business people.' - Michael Ellman, University of Amsterdam `Peter Nolan makes a pungent challenge to conventional wisdom by arguing that the Chinese approach to system reform has been vastly more successful than the shock therapy applied to Russia. His book is based on extensive comparison and deep insight into the political economy of both countries.' - John Toye, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex This book is the first attempt to analyse systematically the dramatic contrast in the results of post-Stalinist reform in China and Russia. It argues that there emerged a 'transition orthodoxy' about how to reform the communist systems of political economy. However, it was deeply flawed. The advice which flowed from this orthodoxy was the primary cause of the Soviet disaster. The decision not to follow it was the main reason for China's enormous success in its reform programme.

Author : Richard B. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524360
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation written by Richard B. Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.