Is Within-system Reform Possible?

Alec Nove
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Alec Nove: University of Glasgow

Chapter 23 in Studies in Economics and Russia, 1990, pp 340-354 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Six years ago (in 1979) I wrote a piece, entitled ‘The economic problems of Brezhnev’s successors’, which appeared in the Washington Papers (published by the CSIS of Georgetown University). This took the form of an imaginary report of an imaginary committee, which had been (in my imagination) set up to recommend reform. In all countries, the powers-that-be tend to appoint committees which will give them the advice they want to hear. So it would have been improbable, to say the least, for Brezhnev to have appointed ‘my’ committee, which represented what might for short be called the Novosibirsk view, and was presided over by Academician Aganbegyan, known to favour fundamental change. Despite Brezhnev’s quite explicit recognition that ‘in the age of scientific-technical revolution, basic changes in our methods of economic management are essential’, as he told the last party congress but one, the prevailing policy was one of cautious drift.

Keywords: Stable Plan; Party Congress; Reform Model; Soviet Society; Unforeseen Circumstance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10991-3_23

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