[PDF] The Political Economy Of Stalinism eBook

Author : Paul R. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139440752

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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 : Alec Nove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136629475

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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
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0817928162

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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 : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300122802

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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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9780415684965

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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
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0230379982

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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.

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Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN :

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English translation of a russian-language composite work on economics in socialist countries - covers economic planning, productivity, supply and demand, management, agrarian reform, agricultural production, wages of rural workers and industrial workers, the gross national product, communist economic theory and social theory, the role of the CMEA, etc.

Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136629262

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First published in 1979, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism is an integrated selection of papers written over the past 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. Professor Nove discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the Russian revolution (Lenin, Trotsky and Bukharin), the political economy of socialism and the problems of the contemporary USSR. The author addresses the role of traditional Russian ideas in shaping the Soviet Union’s social structure and the conceptual problems involved in defining its ruling stratum - whether or not it is a class. He also considers the criteria by which it is reasonable to judge Soviet reality, the performance and prospects of agriculture in communist-ruled Europe, the ability of the Eastern bloc to tackle problems of inflation and the obstacles to economic reform. Looking at the important and original developments of economic thought in the USSR and Eastern Europe, Professor Nove dissects the ideas of the ‘new leftists’ concerning the role of market forces under a feasible socialism. These papers offer essential reading for students of politics, economics and comparative social structure.

Author : Joseph Stalin
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1952-01-01
Category : Communism
ISBN : 3989881949

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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.