Cambridge University Press, Date: 2003. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2003. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521533678 9780521533676 [US]

ISBN10: 0521533678, ISBN13: 9780521533676, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Softcover 1st edition. 320 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Paperback / softback. New. This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies and the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises. ISBN 0521533678 9780521533676 [GB]

Cambridge Univ Pr 2003 Softcover New 1st edition. 320 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

ISBN10: 0521533678, ISBN13: 9780521533676, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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