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Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy

By Alec Nove

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
041568496X, 9780415684965
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7825843 bytes)
Series
Routledge Revivals
Pages
318\318
Topic
Economy
Time added
2022-07-13 16:33:48

Description

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. It discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency. INTRODUCTION page 1. Was Stalin really necessary 2. The uses and abuses of Kremlinology 3. The politics of economic rationality 4. The prospects of Soviet economic growth 5. The problem of 'success indicators' in Soviet industry 6. Soviet planning: reforms in prospect 7. Principal problems of Soviet planning 8. The peasants in Soviet literature since Stalin 9. Soviet agriculture marks time 10. Rural taxation in the USSR 11. Incentives for peasants and administrators 12. A study of Soviet wages 13. Social welfare in the USSR 14. The purchasing power of the Soviet rouble 15. Occupational patterns in the USSR and Great Britain 16. Economic irrationality and irrational statistics 17. Communism GLOSSARY INDEX

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