The Political Economy of Stalinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of Stalinism write by Paul R. Gregory. This book was released on 2004. The Political Economy of Stalinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy
Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy write by Pollack Ethan. This book was released on 2001. Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Was Stalin Really Necessary?
Was Stalin Really Necessary? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Was Stalin Really Necessary? write by Alec Nove. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Was Stalin Really Necessary? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Political Economy of Socialist Realism
Political Economy of Socialist Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Economy of Socialist Realism write by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Political Economy of Socialist Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy
Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy write by Paul Gregory. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
