The political economy of Stalinism

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 The Jockey or the Horse?......Page 15
Blame the Jockey or the Horse?......Page 16
The Soviet State and Party Archives......Page 21
Models of Dictatorship......Page 23
Was Stalin Inevitable?......Page 29
Some Conclusions......Page 34
2 Collectivization, Accumulation, and Power......Page 36
The Prerevolutionary Failure Story......Page 38
The Experiments......Page 40
Grain and Accumulation......Page 43
Collective Farms and Politics......Page 54
Concluding Comments......Page 58
3 The Principles of Governance......Page 63
The Power Struggle......Page 64
The Five Issues of Governance......Page 66
The Dictator’s Curse......Page 82
Concluding Thoughts......Page 86
4 Investment, Wages, and Fairness......Page 90
The Politics of Investment......Page 94
Investment Maximization?......Page 96
The Dictator and the Fair-Wage Model......Page 106
Concluding Comments......Page 121
5 Visions and Control Figures......Page 124
Control Figures......Page 125
Five-Year Plans: Why Did They Survive?......Page 132
Why the Stalinist Pattern of Growth?......Page 136
Concluding Comments......Page 138
6 Planners Versus Producers......Page 140
The Delegation Dilemma......Page 141
Whom Can You Trust?......Page 143
The Economics of Illusion......Page 154
On Whose Side Was the Dictator?......Page 163
Concluding Thoughts......Page 165
7 Creating Soviet Industry......Page 167
Material Balances and Industrial Organization......Page 170
Ministry Rules of the Game......Page 172
The Battle for the Plan......Page 182
Horizontal Dealings......Page 188
Breaking Up Ministries and Glavks......Page 191
Concluding Thoughts......Page 194
8 Operational Planning......Page 197
The Two Faces of Planners......Page 198
Planning and Models of Dictatorship......Page 200
Operational Planning......Page 204
Concluding Comments: Was This a Planned Economy?......Page 223
9 Ruble Control: Money, Prices, and Budgets......Page 227
Ruble Control......Page 228
The Socialist Theory of Banking......Page 231
Money Matters......Page 232
Loss of Control of Money and Credit......Page 236
State Budgets, Exports, and Investment Finance......Page 248
Closing Remarks......Page 254
10 The Destruction of the Soviet Administrative-Command Economy......Page 257
Declining Growth: Sources......Page 260
11 Conclusions......Page 282
Appendix A: Archival Sources......Page 287
Organization of Ministries......Page 289
Archival Material and Bibliographies of Archival Material......Page 303
Published Material......Page 304
Index......Page 315