Economic Reform in the Soviet Union

1984 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed. A. Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
The Soviet Union

The Politics of Economic Reform in the Soviet Union

1974 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 656-657
Author(s):  
A. McAuley
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
The Soviet Union

The Soviet Defense Industry: Conversion and Economic Reform. By Julian Cooper. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1991. 111 pp. Index. Figures. Tables. Paper. - Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union. By Pekka Sutela. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 197 pp. Index. Paper. - Ko-ops: The Rebirth of Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union. By Anthony Jones and William Moskoff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. xvii, 154 pp. Index. Tables. Paper. - The Planned Economies and International Economic Organizations. By Jozef M. van Brabant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xv, 318 pp. Index. Hard bound. - The Order of Economic Liberalization: Financial Control in the Transition to the Market Economy. By Ronald McKinnon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xii, 200 pp. Index. Tables. Figures. Hard bound. - 500 Days: Transition to the Market. By G. Yavlinsky, B. Federov, S. Shatalin, N. Petrakov, S. Aleksashenko, A. Vavilov, L. Grigoriev, M. Zadornov, V. Machits, A. Mikhailov and E. Yasin. Trans. David Kushner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Index. Figures. Tables. Hard bound.

Slavic Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-336
Author(s):  
Robert W. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Johns Hopkins University

Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union

1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Gertrude Schroeder ◽  
Pekka Sutela
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Soviet Union

Government Rulemaking as a Brake on Perestroika

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Huskey
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Government

The Soviet political system is made up of three major institutions: the Communist Party, the parliament, and the government. Whereas the first two have changed dramatically under perestroika, the government has continued to function in more traditional ways. Most worrying to reformists, the government–the Soviet Union's “executive branch”–has used its broad rulemaking authority to impede the transformation of Soviet politics and society. This essay examines the role of governmental rules in the Soviet political and legal system. It concludes, following the lead of Soviet reformists, that without a fundamental restructuring of government making authority, legal, political, and economic reform in the Soviet Union cannot be institutionalized.

Soviet Politics in the Gorbachev Era: The End of Hesitant Modernization

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Amann
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Gorbachev Era

This is a sequel to an article written by the same author, which was published in theJournalin 1986. The current pace of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union represents a ‘paradigm’ change, which Western specialists have found difficult and challenging to assimilate; concepts have lagged behind events. The key to understanding these changes and the reason why they have been so long delayed lies in the fusion of economic and political institutions formed during the Stalin period. The interdependence of economic and political factors is explored as a basis for understanding why political reform has been a necessary accompaniment to economic reform. One can discern in the pattern of political reform an attempt to increase the level of democratization without fundamentally destabilizing the political and social order. Since this strategy requires that a new political culture will take root faster than the growth of popular discontent at deteriorating economic performance and frustrated national aspirations, the author is pessimistic as to the outcome.

The Politics of Economic Reform in the Soviet Union

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Robert W. Campbell ◽  
Abraham Katz
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
The Soviet Union

Soviet Assessments of China after Mao

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
Chris Miller
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Investment Law

This article examines Soviet analyses of the economic reforms that China implemented during the 1980s under Deng Xiaoping. Many historians have argued that Soviet economic reform efforts during the Perestroika era might have been more successful had the Kremlin more closely followed Chinese efforts. This article shows that Soviet economists and sinologists carefully studied China’s reforms to agriculture, industry, and foreign investment law. By the mid-1980s, the article suggests, a significant section of the Soviet intelligentsia believed that China’s market-based economic reforms were working and that the Soviet Union should learn from them.

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