PERESTROIKA, PHASE III: CAN THE USSR LEARN FROM THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL REFORM?

Authors

Phillip J. Bryson, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

Economic reform, perestroika, Gorbachev

Abstract

In Phase I of Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure as chief director of the soviet economic strategy, the General Secretary seemed content to continue an approach his predecessors had referred to as plan "perfecting" (sovershenstvovanie). This approach which called merely for the development and implementation of modest improvements in the planning mechanism. It was the chosen alternative to economic reform, the approach which had been peremptorily rejected with the closing of the Kosygin reforms at the end of the 1960s.

Original Publication Citation

The Carl Beck Papers

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Bryson, Phillip J., "PERESTROIKA, PHASE III: CAN THE USSR LEARN FROM THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL REFORM?" (1991). Faculty Publications. 1557.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1557

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1991-6

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3474

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Economics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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