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Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy

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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. It discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency.

Author(s): Alec Nove
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012

Language: English
Pages: 318
City: London

INTRODUCTION page
1. Was Stalin really necessary
2. The uses and abuses of Kremlinology
3. The politics of economic rationality
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
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
12. A study of Soviet wages
13. Social welfare in the USSR
14. The purchasing power of the Soviet rouble
15. Occupational patterns in the USSR and
Great Britain
16. Economic irrationality and irrational
statistics
17. Communism
GLOSSARY
INDEX