Soviet Economic Reforms Since Stalin: Ideology, Politics, and Learning
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Soviet Economy
- Vol. 6 (3) , 252-280
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08826994.1990.10641325
Abstract
An American political scientist reinterprets the politics of economic reform in the USSR from 1953 to 1991. The paper offers an integrated explanation for three features of reform policies: their reappearance during periods of political succession; their persistent partiality; and their radicalization over time. The explanation focuses on the interaction over time among political competition, ideology, and collective learning. Reasoning leads to conclusions that a consensus on the superiority of a market economy finally emerged within the Soviet leadership in 1990, but that the learning process has not resulted in a consensus on strategies and costs of transition, journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: 040, 052.Keywords
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