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Though Khrushchev was aiming his attack at unnecessary and inefficient administration, the overall result of his measures should be a sharp increase in bureaucracy. That, many economists think, is precisely the opposite of what Russia needs to achieve a modern and efficient economy. Kharkov's Professor Evsey Liberman has been arguing for months for a new plan that would give local plant managers more autonomy and would in effect give Russian industry a profit incentive. In his speech, Khrushchev referred to the plan without condemning or endorsing it. which means that it will go back to the experts...
...onetime aeronautical engineering student in Kharkov, he made his way to Boston in 1947, got an M.A. in international and regional studies at Harvard, and took out U.S. citizenship. He is now an associate at Harvard's Russian Research Center, and one of the West's leading experts on Russian education...
...party biography supplies him with the best of credentials. He was born in a poor peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions, Polyansky does not stand around stiffly with the other Presidium members making small talk with diplomats; he table-hops around the hall, mingling with rank-and-file party functionaries...
About the only consolation for the defeated traditionalists is the possibility that the new hotels and halls may suffer the same fate as a recently built steel institute in Kharkov. Last spring, according to the Economic Gazette, cracks began to appear in the institute's walls, and panels slid off the facade. Workmen hastily shored up the damaged section. Then, last month the right wing of the institute collapsed. Investigators belatedly discovered that the builders had forgotten to install drainpipes. Rain seeped into the walls and pillars, froze solid in a cold spell and turned to water again...
...dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...