Alec Nove

Was Stalin Really Necessary? (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136629471
• Artikelnr.: 41213463

Autorenporträt

Alec Nove

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I: Political Economy 1. Was Stalin really necessary? 2. The
uses and abuses of Kremlinology 3. The politics of economic rationality II:
Industrial Growth and Planning 4. The prospects of Soviet economic growth
5. The problem of 'success indicators' in Soviet industry 6. Soviet
planning: Reforms in prospect 7. Principal problems of Soviet planning III:
Agriculture 8. The peasants in Soviet literature since Stalin 9. Soviet
agriculture marks time 10. Rural taxation in the USSR 11. Incentives for
peasants and administrators IV: Labour, Welfare 12. A study of Soviet wages
13. Social welfare in the USSR V: Statistics 14. The purchasing power of
the Soviet rouble 15. Occupational patterns in the USSR and Great Britain
16. Economic irrationality and irrational statistics VI: Ideology 17.
Communism