Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Political Economy of Stalinism:

Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
Front Cover
1 Review
Cambridge University Press, Oct 27, 2003 - Political Science - 322 pages
Using formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the Soviet administrative command system, this study concludes that the system failed not because of Stalin and later leaders, but because of the economic system. It pinpoints the reasons for failure such as poor planning, unreliable supplies, preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises as well as the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate. Although the command system was the most significant human experiment of the twentieth century, its basic contradictions and inherent flaws would re-surface if it were to be repeated.
  

What people are saying - Write a review

Review: The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives

User Review  - Frank Stein - Goodreads

For a libertarian type like me the real mystery of the Soviet Union's economy wasn't that it eventually imploded and collapsed, but that it appeared to creak and sputter on for so long. I was ... Read full review

Related books

Behind the façade of Stalin's command economy: evidence from the Soviet ...
Behind the façade of Stalin's command economy: evidence from the Soviet ...
Paul R. Gregory
Snippet view - 2001
Soviet Union to Commonwealth: Transformation and Challenges
Soviet Union to Commonwealth: Transformation and Challenges
Kalipada Deb
Limited preview - 1996
Russian National Income, 1885-1913
Russian National Income, 1885-1913
Paul R. Gregory
Limited preview - 2004
All related books »

Selected pages

Contents

IV
1
V
22
VI
49
VII
76
VIII
110
IX
126
X
153
XI
183
XII
213
XIII
243
XIV
268
XV
273
XVI
275
XVII
289
XVIII
301
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
Paul R. Gregory
No preview available - 2004

Common terms and phrases

administrative-command economy administrative-command system agriculture allocation annual plan approved archives Bolshevik budget capital Central Committee Chapter collectivization Command Economy commercial credits commission construction consumption control figures decisions decree deputy dictator dictator's dictatorship economic enterprises factories fair wage finance five-year plan force fulfill GARF glavks Gosbank Gosplan grain growth Gulag Gump Hayek Heavy Industry Ibid industrial ministries investment plan issue Khlevnyuk Kuibyshev kulaks leaders leadership Letters to Molotov Main Administration managers metals Mikoian million rubles minister Ministry of Heavy Molotov Moscow NKLP NKTP NKTP's OGPU orders Ordzhonikidze organizations output Paul Gregory peasants percent Perepiski planned economy planners planning department Politburo meeting Politburo members political quarter quarterly plans R. W. Davies regional RGAE rubles Russian Rykov September Sergo Ordzhonikidze socialist Soviet Economy Soviet Union Stakhanovism Stakhanovites Stalin i Kaganovich Stalinskoe Politburo stationary bandit steel subordinates supply targets tion transactions transport University Press USSR workers

References to this book

From other books

Cahiers du monde russe
Cahiers du monde russe, Volume 44, Issues 1-4

Snippet view - 2003
The rise and fall of the Soviet Union
The rise and fall of the Soviet Union
Martin McCauley
Snippet view - 2008

From Google Scholar

Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives
Paul Gregory, Mark Harrison - 2005 - Journal of Economic Literature
The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard On Socialism In Theory ...
PETER J BOETTKE, CHRISTOPHER J COYNE - 2004 - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Promotion Contracts And Support For The Soviet Regime
Valery Lazarev
Dictators, Repression And The Median Citizen: An “eliminations ...
Paul Gregory, Philipp Schröder, Konstantin Sonin
All Scholar search results »

References from web pages

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet ...
The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives, by Paul R. Gregory (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 308. ...
www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o& se=gglsc& d=5009433202

Paul R. Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from ...
Paul R. Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet. Secret Archives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 308 pp. ...
www2.warwick.ac.uk/ fac/ soc/ economics/ staff/ faculty/ harrison/ reviews/ gregory-lazarev.pdf

The political economy of Stalinism: a Bergson retrospective.
Gregory, P. 2004: The political economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet secret archives. Cambridge University Press: London. ...
www.entrepreneur.com/ tradejournals/ article/ 133684234_5.html

The political economy of Stalinism: a Bergson retrospective.(Abram ...
Select a Category, Online Courses, Business Encyclopedias, Industry & Marketing Reports, Business News, Company Profiles, Business Plans ...
goliath.ecnext.com/ coms2/ summary_0199-4434578_ITM

6 x 10.Long.P65
The political economy of Stalinism : evidence from the Soviet secret. archives / Paul R. Gregory. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ...
assets.cambridge.org/ 97805218/ 26280/ copyright/ 9780521826280_copyright.pdf

Comparative Political Studies
Book Review: The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence From the Soviet Secret Archives. http://cps.sagepub.com. The online version of this article can be ...
cps.sagepub.com/ cgi/ reprint/ 38/ 2/ 222.pdf

Comparative Economic Studies - The Political Economy of Stalinism ...
Search. This journal, All of palgrave-journals.com. Advanced search. Comparative Economic Studies - Celebrating 50 Years ...
www.palgrave-journals.com/ ces/ journal/ v47/ n2/ full/ 8100096a.html

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence From the Soviet ...
The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence From the Soviet Secret Archives By Hoover research fellow Paul R. Gregory from Business Wire in Business ...
findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_m0EIN/ is_2004_Feb_25/ ai_113611928

The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet ...
The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. By Paul R. Gregory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 308. ...
ideas.repec.org/ a/ cup/ jechis/ v66y2006i03p830-831_22.html

ingentaconnect The Political Economy of Stalinism: A Bergson ...
The Political Economy of Stalinism: A Bergson Retrospective. Author: Gregory, Paul1. Source: Comparative Economic Studies, Volume 47, Number 2, ...
www.ingentaconnect.com/ content/ pal/ ces/ 2005/ 00000047/ 00000002/ art00012;jsessionid=6dspefe4pq160.alice?format=print

About the author (2003)

Paul Gregory is in charge of Hoover's research on the Soviet state and party archives. His project has brought together economists, historians and political scientists from around the world to do analytical work on Hoover's rich holdings of Soviet-era documents. Gregory and his team have produced more than fifty articles and seven books, including two that have received international awards. He served as editor of the seven-volume History of Stalin's Gulag (published jointly by Hoover and the Russian Archival Service), which was awarded the silver human rights award of the Russian Federation in 2006 and is an editor of the three volume Stenograms of the Politburo of the Communist Party (published jointly by Hoover and the Russian Archival Service). Two of his edited works - Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag -- have been published by Hoover Press. In addition to Hoover support, Professor Gregory's current research on Soviet dictatorship and repression is supported by the National Science Foundation. Paul Gregory holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Ho u s t o n and is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of nine books and many articles on the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. He serves on the editorial boards of Comparative Economic Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism, and Explorations in Economic History. He is currently the President of the Association of Comparative Economic Studies.

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Political Economy of Stalinism
TitleThe Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
Acls humanities e-book
AuthorPaul R. Gregory
Editionillustrated
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN0521533678, 9780521533676
Length322 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Economics / General
Political Science / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan