Inefficient, overstaffed and indifferent to the public's needs, the
Soviet economic bureaucracy operates today much as it did in the
1930s. In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Paul R.
Gregory takes an inside look at how this system works and why it
has traditionally been so resistant to change. Gregory's findings
shed light on a bureaucracy that is widely considered the greatest
threat to Gorbachev's efforts at perestroika, or restructuring.
Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy is based on Soviet
and Western published accounts as well as interviews with former
members of the Soviet economic bureaucracy, mainly from the middle
elite. These informants, with their expert knowledge of the system,
tell how bureaucrats big and small make the routine and
extraordinary decisions that determine Soviet resource allocation.
This highly personalized account reveals Soviet bureaucratic
practices to be the response to an inherently complex
resource-allocation problem that defies easy solutions. The
often-criticized irrationalities of the Soviet bureaucracy are
revealed to contain their own internal logic and consistency.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Soviet Interview Project |
Release date: |
July 1990 |
First published: |
1990 |
Authors: |
Paul R Gregory
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
196 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-36386-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Economic systems >
General
|
LSN: |
0-521-36386-1 |
Barcode: |
9780521363860 |
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