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...comment on the limits of Khrushchev's power (compared with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except...
Nikolai A. Voznesensky, member of the Politburo, chairman of the Gosplan(State Planning Commission...
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...