This book studies the work of five Russian liberal thinkers who were active in the period 1840-60 against the general background of Russian history, literature and thought in that period. All five thinkers (to each of whom a separate chapter is devoted) played an important part in the flowering of Russian letters in the 1840s, and were involved in the attempt of the intelligentsia, the conscience of the nation, to bring more humane and enlightened values to their backward and semi-feudal country. By the 1850s, when a more radical wing began to emerge in the intelligentsia, the moderation of these liberals became more apparent. While the radicals were prepared to countenance revolutionary upheaval, the liberals counselled patience, toleration, and gradualism. In his conclusion Dr Offord explores the possible reasons for the failure of the liberal tendency, represented by these thinkers, to establish itself properly in Russia.

First published in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the origins of the Soviet economic planning system and the theories which founded it, previous attempts to reform the organisational structure and the particular problem of agriculture, Dyker presents a picture of an increasingly bleak future for the Soviet economy. This is a comprehensive title written by a renowned expert on the Soviet economy, which will be of particular value to students and academics researching the political and economic development and history of the Soviet Union.

"Restructuring the Soviet Economy" addresses the fundamental economic problem facing the Soviet government at the present time. How can an economy which has been centrally planned for 60 years make the testing and painful transition to market-based principles? The Soviet experience in the latter half of the 1980s suggests that it is going to be a much more difficult task than was initially believed in either East or West. David Dyker seeks to uncover the underlying reasons for the paralysis of perestroika. He focuses on the crisis points - some new, some perennial - of the economy: the relationship between the enterprise, the regions and the centre, agriculture, investment, inflation, and the budget deficit. A concise treatment of an area which the non-specialist often finds obscure, it is designed to be analytical, without being too technical for the non-economist. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of Soviet studies, economics and European studies.

Product Description: This work covers the ways in which small client-states of the Soviet Union were forced to attempt to achieve economic self-sufficiency after the end of World War II; it goes on to examine how and why that process did not work, and how the forced development of heavy industry contributed to that...read more

Product Description: The coordination of decision making has always been an important topic for politicians, business people, and scientists alike. The experiment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to build a centrally planned economy provides an excellent example to study the possibilities and limitations of planned coordination...read more

Product Description: This book discusses the evolution of ideas about the desirable combination of planning and market in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary since the 1960s, when major economic reforms started, up to 1991 when the countries have been engaged in a transformation of their economies into market economies...read more

Product Description: "... thoughtful and insightful essays... " —Economics of Transition"This book represents a distinguished collection. Specialists will be pleased to have it on their shelves." —Irish Slavonic StudiesRepublics of the former USSR are moving painfully toward a market economy, after their centrally planned economic system collapsed...read more

Product Description: This study examines the critical issues in the transition from centrally planned to market-oriented economies and suggests a strategy for minimizing total social costs and maximizing the possibilities for success. The author evaluates current strategies, methods of privatization of state-owned assets and the importance of the international community in facilitating transition...read more

Product Description: Book by Jonas, Paul

Product Description: Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy

Product Description: This is the first detailed political and social history in English of Stalin's industrial revolution during the first Five-Year Plan. The diversion of vast resources into industrialization severely squeezed national consumption, imposing a heavy burden and sacrifice on the entire nation...read more

Product Description: The changes that are taking place under "glasnost" and "perestroika" cannot be understood without the sort of historical and institutional material which "A Guide to the Socialist Economies" makes available. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of economics, Soviet and Eastern European Studies...read more

Product Description: Economic reform, structural adjustment, macroeconomic stabilization, and participation in the world economy are interconnected aspects of the same issue: the long-term economic viability of centrally planned economies in the rapidly changing economic environment of the modern world...read more

Product Description: These studies cover topics from income inequality in the USSR to risk-taking in Yugoslav self-managed enterprises. They aim to provide fresh perspectives on economic processes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and are presented with reference to related Western experience...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: This book contains important contributions by prominent economic theorists - among them Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow - and by leading experts on Marxist economic thought and the Soviet economy such as Abram Bergson. The book opens with an introductory essay by Padma Desai on the life and work of Alexander Erlich, the distinguished Russian-born economist and Sovietologist...read more