Table Of ContentSoviet Economic Management
under Khrushchev
The Sovnarkhoz reform of 1957 was designed by Khrushchev to improve effi -
ciency in the Soviet economic system by decentralizing economic decision
making from all-Union branch ministries in Moscow to the governments of the
individual republics and regional economic councils. Based on extensive original
research, including unpublished archival material, this book examines the reform,
discussing the motivations for it, which included Khrushchev’s attempt to
strengthen his own power base. The book explores how the process of reform was
implemented, especially its impact on the republics, and analyzes why the
reform, which was reversed in 1959, failed. Overall, the book reveals a great deal
about the workings, and the shortcomings, of the Soviet economic system at its
height.
Nataliya Kibita is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Business
and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK.
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Soviet Economic Management
under Khrushchev
The Sovnarkhoz reform
Nataliya Kibita
