From Stagnation to Catastroika: Commentaries on the Soviet Economy, 1983-1991

by Philip Hanson

Overview

This book is a collection of fascinating articles on the Soviet economy by an eminent economist. Most were written as current commentaries and were meant to report and to interpret developments in the Soviet economy under Gorbachev more or less as they occurred. Hanson's reflections cover more than particular events or a particular Soviet debate. In general, the articles were written for readers who were not necessarily either economists or Sovietologists, and they offer important insight on the ongoing transition of the Soviet economy to a free market economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275942557
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/19/1992
Series:	The Washington Papers , #155
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

PHILIP HANSON is professor of Soviet economics at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books on the Soviet economy and East-West trade, of jourbanal articles in Soviet Studies, Soviet Economy, The Jourbanal of Comparative Economics, European Economic Review and elsewhere, and of press articles for the Financial Times, Times (London), Independent, and Wall Street Jourbanal. Hanson has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a senior Mellon fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center.

Table of Contents

Author's Prologue: January 1992
Introduction
Brezhnev's Economic Legacy
Economics, Sovietology, and Mr. Gorbachev's Agenda
Discussion of Economic Reform in the USSR: The "Novosibirsk Paper"
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Economy
The Reform Debate Expands
Economics, Economic Advisers, and the Gorbachev Leadership
The Twenty-Seventh Party Congress: The Economy
Some Unanswered Questions about Gorbachev's Economic Reorganization
The Soviet Twelfth Five-Year Plan
The Enterprise Law and the Reform Process
The Reform Debate: What Are the Limits?
The Draft Law on Cooperatives: An Assessment
Ownership and Economic Reform
Inflation versus Reform
The Current State of Soviet Economic Reforms
Capitalism or Socialism? A Minor Semantic Problem in the Soviet Reforms
Prospects for Reform: Three Key Issues in 1990
Gorbachev's Revolution Really Does Start Here
Soviet Food Shortages: Chaos Rather Than Famine
Index