Restructuring the Soviet economic bureaucracy

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Label

Restructuring the Soviet economic bureaucracy

Statement of responsibility

Paul R. Gregory

Creator

• Gregory, Paul R

Subject

• Central planning -- Soviet Union
• Government economists -- Soviet Union
• Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union
• Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1986-1991
• Perestroĭka

Language

eng

Summary

In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Paul R. Gregory takes an inside look at how the system worked and why it has traditionally been so resistant to change. Gregory's findings shed light on a bureaucracy that was widely considered the greatest threat to Gorbachev's efforts at perestroika, or restructuring. Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy is based on Soviet and Western published accounts as well as interviews with former members of the Soviet economic bureaucracy, mainly from the middle elite. These informants, with their expert knowledge of the system, tell how bureaucrats big and small made the routine and extraordinary decisions that determined Soviet resource allocation. The often-criticized irrationalities of the Soviet bureaucracy are revealed to contain their own internal logic and consistency.--

Member of

• Soviet interview project series

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Soviet interview project
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks