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Ismail
7th May 2015, 01:59
https://archive.org/details/ManAndPlanInSovietEconomy

Yet another book I've scanned. The author, Andrew Rothstein, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Great Britain and an authority on Soviet affairs back in the day. I've already scanned his 1951 history of the U.S.S.R. (https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R.) a few months back, so yeah.


I Planning Amid Difficulties
1. Two Views of Socialist Economy
2. External Relations and Plans, 1920-32
3. Planning in the Hitler Period, 1933-41
4. The War and After
5. The Problem of Devastation

II Resources for Soviet Planning and Managerial Initiative
1. The Basis of Soviet Planning
2. Accumulation in Soviet Economy
3. Costs, Profits and Factory Management
4. Control by Bank and Budget

III The Workers' Effort in Soviet Planning
1. Subbotniks and Reconstruction
2. Production Conferences
3. The Shock Brigades
4. Unity in Multiformity, 1929-1933
5. Stakhanovites in Peace and War, 1935-45
6. Post-war Socialist Emulation

IV Collective Farms and the Individual
1. Collective Farming in Soviet Economy
2. The Transformation of Agriculture
3. Individual Initiative in Co-operative Husbandry
4. The Legacy of War
5. Socialist Emulation in the Countryside

V Trade in the System of Soviet Planning
1. The Development of Soviet Trade
2. Wholesale, Retail and Prices Organisation

VI Industrialisation in Central Asia
1. The Economic Past of Soviet Asia
2. After the Five Year Plans
3. War-time Industrial Advance
4. Problems and Prospects