The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy : an Economic History of the USSR From 1945.

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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.

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 mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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