TY - BOOK ID - 2477859 TI - The politics of economic stagnation in the Soviet Union : the role of local party organs in economic management PY - 1993 VL - 88 SN - 0521392411 0521121302 0511559291 0511877900 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Industrial management KW - Gestion d'entreprise KW - Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza KW - Soviet Union KW - URSS KW - Economic policy KW - Politics and government KW - Politique économique KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza KW - Politique économique KW - Working class KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Industrial relations KW - Economic conditions KW - 1955-1965 KW - Working class - Soviet Union - History - 20th century. KW - Industrial relations - Soviet Union - History - 20th century. KW - Soviet Union - Economic conditions - 1955-1965. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za. KW - Communist Party of the Soviet Union KW - Communist Party of USSR KW - CPSU KW - Đảng cộng sản Liên xô KW - Kamunistychnai︠a︡ partyi︠a︡ Savetskaha Sai︠u︡za KW - KKSE KW - Kommounistikon Komma tēs Sobietikēs Henōseōs KW - Kommunistische Partei der Sowjet Union KW - Komunistička partija Sovjetskog Saveza KW - Komunistická strana Sovětského svazu KW - Komunistychna partii︠a︡ Radi︠a︡nsʹkoho Soi︠u︡zu KW - Komunistyczna Partia Związku Radzieckiego KW - KPdSU KW - KPR KW - KPRS KW - KPSS KW - KPZR KW - KSSS KW - KSSZ KW - Miflagah ha-ḳomunisṭit shel Berit-ha-Moʻatsot KW - Neuvostoliiton kommunistinen puolue KW - NKP KW - NLKP KW - Nõukogude Liidu Kommunistlik Partei KW - Partai Komunis Uni Sovjet KW - Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique KW - Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética KW - Partido Comunista Ruso KW - Partito comunista Unione sovietica KW - PCUS KW - Phō̜kō̜sō̜sō̜ KW - PKUS KW - Rokoku Kyōsantō KW - Roshia Kyōsantō KW - Rosia Kongsandang KW - Sabčotʻa Kavširis Komunisturi Partia KW - SKKP KW - SMKK KW - SMKP KW - Sobieto Kyōsantō KW - Soren Kyōsantō KW - Sorenpō Kyōsantō KW - Sov. IKP KW - Sovet Ittifagy Kommunist Partii̐asy KW - Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Kusaktsʻutʻyun KW - Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Partia KW - Soviet Communist Party KW - Soviet Union. KW - Sōviyata Saṅghakī Kamyunisṭa Pārṭī KW - Sovjetunionens kommunistiska parti KW - Sovyetler Birliği Komünist Partisi KW - Su-lien kung chʻan tang KW - SUKP KW - SZKP KW - Szovjetunió Kommunista Pártja KW - U̇mum Ittifag Kommunist Partii︠a︡sy KW - Zenrenpō Kyōsantō KW - ZKhUKN KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Ulsyn Kommunist Nam KW - Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза KW - אלקפ (ב) KW - מפלגה הקומוניסטית של ברית־המועצות KW - 蘇聯共產黨 KW - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii KW - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ RSFSR KW - Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1925-1952) KW - Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1991- ) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2477859 AB - In this 1992 book Professor Peter Rutland analyses the role played by regional and local organs of the Soviet Communist Party in economic management from 1970 to 1990. Using a range of political and economic journals, newspapers and academic publications, he examines interventions in the construction industry, energy, transport, consumer goods and agriculture. Rutland argues that party interventions hindered rather than assisted the search for efficiency in the Soviet economy, and repeated attempts to introduce more economically rational management methods failed to alter these traditional patterns of party intervention. He further demonstrates how as the Soviet economy matured and grew more complex over the last three decades, party interventions became increasingly out of tune with the needs of the economy. Yet even the calls for radical reform of the economy since 1985 were not accompanied by any decisive changes in this pattern of party intervention; this, argues Peter Rutland, casts serious doubts on the political feasibility of economic reform in a Soviet-type system. ER -