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interesting details and (mostly) sensible themes,
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This review is from: The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives (Paperback)
Professor Gregory looked into the Soviet State and Communist Party Archives to put together this enlightening study of the Stalinist economy.I am very sensitive to the treatment of this topic and find offense when writers proclaim that socialism is wonderful and only failed in the USSR because the wrong people were in charge. Therefore, I found it refreshing to read already in the preface of this work that such excuses come from "apologists." The author wisely mocks the absurd concept that a selfless "new Soviet man" would emerge thus allowing the Soviet government to stop using violent coercion to make people work having outlawed positive incentives. The book contains many interesting details of how the central planning was carried out including tables of statistics. The author only loses me when he discusses "fair" wages, for example by insinuating that Soviet people would have been more happy if the government had legislated higher wages. A government strategy to make people richer by legislating higher wages even while productivity remains the same will never work because it is mathematically impossible. John Christmas, author of "Democracy Society" |
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The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives by Paul R. Gregory (Paperback - October 27, 2003)
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