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Reflections on Soviet Industrial Reorganization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Nicholas Laskovsky
Nicholas Laskovsky*
Affiliation:
Leningrad Institute of Economics
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One of the characteristics of Soviet industry is perpetual reorganization of its management. Reorganization has become unusually frequent since the war, for nearly every year some industrial ministries have been abolished, while others have been created. Still others have been split apart or merged. The same processes have occurred at the intermediate and local levels, that is, with the bureaus of ministries, the trusts, and the factory administrations.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 1958 , pp. 47 - 58
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1958

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References

1 Speech of N. S. Khrushchev at Supreme Soviet USSR, hveslia, May 8, 1957, p. 3, col. 1; Law on further realization of the administrative organization of industry and construction, sees. 2, 4 and 5. Izvestia, May 11, 1957, p. 1, col. 2.

2 Law on further realization, sees. 9-14 and also Law amending the constitution of the USSR, sees. 6 and 7, Izvestia, May 11, 1957, p. 1, col. 2 and p. 2, col. 1-2.

3 Theses of N. S. Khrushchev, Izvestia, March 30, 1957, p. 3, col. 2.

4 Resolution of the CC of the CPSU, Pravda, Dec. 25, 1956, p. 1, col. 4.

5 Resolution of the CC of the CPSU, adopted Feb. 14, 1957. Published in all Soviet newspapers. See esp. Komsomolskaja pravda, Feb. 16, 1957, p. 1, col. 3-4.

6 See Krokodil, No. 13, 1957, p. 4, col. 1-2.

7 See F. Savenkov, “The road to realization of the administrative apparatus,” Kommunist, No. 6, 1957, p. 27.

8 See Narodnoe khozjaistvo SSSR. Statisticheskij sbornik. 1956, p. 44.

9 Kommunist, No. 4, 1957. Leading article, p. 3.

10 For example, see Joseph Kershaw, “Recent Trends in the Soviet Economy,’ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1956, p. 42.

11 Resolution, cit. supra, note 4.

12 Resolution, cit. supra, note 5.

13 Theses, cit. supra, note 3. at p. 3, col. 2.

14 Speech, cit. supra, note 1.

15 Law, cit. supra, note 1,

16 Resolution of the Seventeenth Congress, following the report of L. M. Kaganovich, Pravda, Feb. 11, 1934, p. 3, col. 7.

17 Theses of Khrushchev, cit. supra, note 3.

18 Law, cit. supra, note 1, sees. 2, 4 and 5.

19 Idem, sec. 13.

20 Idem, sec. 19.

21 See F. Savenkov, cit. supra, note 7 at p. 31.

22 See A. Iosof'jan, chief editor of the magazine “Bulletin of the Electrical Industry,” director of the Scientific Experimental Institute. “It is necessary to take into consideration the specifications of branches of industry,” Kommunist, No. 6, 1957, p. 59.

23 See Kommunist, No. 7, 1957, leading article, p. 8.

24 See idem, p. 9.

25 See, in particular, Voprosy ekonomiki, No. 8, 1948, p. 74; No. 6, 1949, pp. 78-95, and also the article by Academician K. Ostrovitianov, “The Leninist principles of planning and the reorganization of industrial administration,” Pravda, April 26, 1957, p. 4, col. 2-3.