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The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning

In: Transition and Beyond

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  • Michael Ellman

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In February 1921 Russia established a State General Planning Commission to work out and implement a unified economic plan for the national economy. For 70 years this Commission, known as Gosplan for short, played a significant, but varying role in Russian and Soviet economic life. Under the influence of the Soviet example, planning organizations spread throughout the world, to state socialist countries, to OECD countries such as France, the Netherlands and Japan, and also to third world countries such as India. In April 1991, deeply discredited by the poor performance of the Soviet economy and the ideological developments of 1985–90, Gosplan was trans-formed into a Ministry of Economic Affairs and Forecasting with substantially different tasks. Socialist planning had come to an end in the USSR even prior to the end of the USSR itself. What explains these dramatic developments?

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  • Michael Ellman, 2007. "The Rise and Fall of Socialist Planning," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Saul Estrin & Grzegorz W. Kolodko & Milica Uvalic (ed.), Transition and Beyond, chapter 1, pages 17-34, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-0-230-59032-8_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230590328_2
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