Rothstein A. Man and plan in the Soviet economy

London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1948. — 300 p.Tins book was written when the deeper truths about the Soviet Union, to which the eyes of many millions were opened for a short while during tlie war against Nazi Germany, were being temporarily obscured attain by the passion of controversy about the settlement of Europe after the war. Experience, throughout the thirty years' existence of the Soviet Union, however, suggests that study of the permanent features of the Soviet economy and polity, as they are, is a better guide to Soviet policy, and therefore to European peace and prosperity, than passion or prejudice. The pages which follow are offered with that in mind. There is no single thesis which this book attempts to sustain. In the first chapter it dwells on the intimate connection for tlie U.S.S.R. between planning and foreign policy. In the next four chapters it goes on to show the role of the individual in the Soviet economy before and after the second World War. The sixth chapter deals with the immensely important war-time changes in Soviet Central Asia, both economic and social. An Afterword ventures to challenge, in the light of the farts presented earlier, some recent misrepresentations of the Soviet method of planning.Planning Amid Difficulties
Resources for Soviet Planning and Managerial Initiative
The Workers' Effort in Soviet Planning
Collective Farms and the Individual
Trade in the System of Soviet Planning pag
Industrialisation in Central Asia