Word: libermanism
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...bear all the expenses for installing it, maintenance, and the rest. It's a gift to New York. It may tend to break down the walls of the museum- I hope." Four weeks ago, the first show at Hammarskjold Plaza opened with seven giant constructions by Alexander Liberman. It was an intelligent choice: Liberman's buoyant sculptures, with their red-lacquered steel surfaces laid like skin over space, changed the street into a visual event...
...early 1960s, Kharkov University Professor Yevsei Liberman argued that profit, not production quotas, should be considered the key index of efficiency and that a degree of local managerial autonomy should be permitted. For a brief period, Brezhnev & Co. went along with his ideas. As British Sovietologist Leonard Schapiro notes, "Communist regimes are always willing to yield to economic reform if it will stop the people from demanding political reform. [But] you can't reform an economic system without reforming it politically as well." Brezhnev soon concluded that Libermanism might ultimately lead to liberalism, or something equally loathsome, and the reforms...
While many Eastern European countries are gradually giving managers more power and encouraging personal initiative, the Soviet Union appears to be moving in the opposite direction. One important indication is a new book by Soviet Economist Yevsei Liberman, whose earlier espousal of the profit motive and decentralized industrial management caused some experimentation with economic reform in the early 1960s. Liberman has now decided that free markets cannot function within a Communist society and are in fact "anti-Leninist...
Officially, there is no discrimination in the Soviet Union, and many Jewish artists and writers, scientists and physicians, engineers and economists, are members of the privileged elite. There is Veniamin Dymshits, the Deputy Premier in charge of Soviet industry. Economist Yevsei Liberman was responsible for a brief attempt at loosening Moscow's rigidly centralized economic control, and his ideas are now widely emulated in Eastern Europe. An estimated one-third of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is Jewish. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and perhaps 90% of the Bolshoi Orchestra are Jewish, as are Violinists Leonid Kogan and David...
...leadership is still wrestling with an even more fundamental economic problem. Should economic stagnation be attacked by reapplying the all but forgotten liberal "Liberman reforms" introduced by Premier Aleksei Kosygin in 1965 and soon quietly abandoned by the conservative Brezhnev? Those reforms called for decentralization, increased authority for factory and regional managers, and careful use of market mechanisms. Or should the Kremlin move in the opposite direction by imposing even stricter discipline and central control...