Word: gosplan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second Five-Year Plan ended last week, and the Soviet Union entered 1938 by starting on a third. The Gosplan or State Planning Commission made last April the preliminary blanket announcement in Pravda and Izvestia that the second Five-Year Plan had been "over-fulfilled in four years and three months." and public celebrations took place throughout the Soviet Union. Economists of the embassies and legations in Moscow, who had seen this happen before, sat back and waited for the detailed official statistics on the second Five-Year Plan to be issued several months later...
During the summer study of these revealed that in sectors of the Plan in which there had been costly breakdowns the greater-than-expected total cost was cited by the Gosplan as evidence of "over-fulfillment." Copies of the official statistics issued by the state in languages other than Russian were again found to omit qualifying footnotes and other matter the absence of which made the second Five-Year Plan results read more optimistically in English, French or German than in the Russian text...
...production rose spectacularly in the decade before the Revolution, but Soviet fulfillment of the Plans as a "system of planned economy" or a "planned economic order" cannot be found by neutral economists in Moscow-each of whom has his own pet instances in which he thinks he has caught Gosplan quibbling, contradicting official figures with official figures, or just plain lying...
...Gosplan has been under the disadvantage that the Political Police took away last summer and autumn not only its director, V. I. Mezhlauk, but also the other leading Plan officials, and they have not been heard of since. The June issue...
...Year-Plan involved stupendous imports of foreign machinery to establish a Soviet Economic Base. Foreign money needed to pay for this was got by selling every kind of Russian product abroad at prices exactly low enough to make the sales quick-i. e., "dumping prices." Proudly last week the Gosplan pointed out to Dr. Bogen that repayment of the short-term debts incurred to finance the First Five-Year-Plan has now almost been completed; Bolshevik credit has been sufficiently established to finance additional imports of machinery from Britain, Germany and Czechoslovakia at longterm; and, since there is now less...