Word: gosplan
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...said flatly, "The government should intervene in economic affairs and regulate them." Then he selected two men with a lot of experience with such intervention. As his first Cabinet appointment, he named Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist Party member and a former head of the Soviet State Planning Committee, Gosplan. With headquarters in the building where the Duma sits, Gosplan was the organization that tried to plan in advance every transaction in the Soviet economy. Since Primakov has no experience in running an economy, Maslyukov is presumably the man who will...
...many as 8 million highly trained, well- paid employees staff the thousands of factories, laboratories and offices that plan and produce Soviet weaponry. Almost all the installations are in the Russian republic and the Ukraine, with heavy concentrations in Moscow, Leningrad and the Urals. Production is checked by Gosplan, the central economic planning agency, which operates on directives and specifications from the design bureaus of defense-related ministries. The bureaus, often named for chief designers like Sukhoi, Tupolev, Ilyushin, Mikoyan and Gurevich, are the Soviet equivalent of Boeing and Lockheed...
...Soviet economy, three millionbureaucrats fill reams of paper each year settingquotas for everything from nails to oil to lumberto televisions, 200,000 items in all. Factoriesproduce goods not because anyone wants theirproduct, but because Gosplan, the state agencyresponsible for such nonsense, tells them to doso...
...were rewarded by merit, he can'tbuy anything worth having with his money, sinceMoscow bureaucrats, not he and other Soviets, setthe demand for goods. And even if he could somehowget what he wants, it would be of only the lowestquality, since quantity and not quality isrewarded by Gosplan. Soviet televisions, forexample, are prone to explode...
...sense he is merely broadening his experimentation with free markets. The party is to politics what Gosplan, the state central planning agency, is to the economy. For some time enterprising Georgians have been allowed to fly to Moscow in the dead of winter to sell their flowers at whatever prices they can get in the underground stations of the Metro. Latter-day kulaks sell in private stalls the vegetables they raise on private plots. Taxi drivers, restaurateurs and publishers are making money in microenclaves of capitalism called cooperatives. Even the state has got in on the act, auctioning off foreign...