Abstract
In this chapter the Soviet SWR is discussed in a systematic way and the GDR system briefly. It has already been mentioned that the Soviet system is a classical, direct system and that it was used by other countries of the Soviet bloc until the second half of the 1960s more or less. Therefore the analysis of the Soviet system will be at the same time also an explanation of the system in other countries in the 1950s.
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V. Sitnin, 1974, p. 146, and A. Miliukov, Sotsialisticheskii trud, no. 5, 1969.
M. Kabaj (International Labour Review, no. 2, 1966) contends that in 1945–55 in some branches the adjustment coefficient for over-fulfilment was 2–3.
Khoziaistvennaia reforma v SSSR, 1969, p. 245, and V. Kletskii and G. Risina, Planovoe khoziaistvo, no. 8, 1970.
According to E. Liberman, Ekonomicheskaia gazeta, no. 5, 1965, sales as an indicator were supposed to be assigned to branches whose products were still in short supply.
According to a study carried out by the Gosplan in cooperation with research institutes, deficiencies in planning and incentives are listed among the reasons for targets not being fulfilled in productivity. (See V. Mosk-alenko, Planovoe khoziaistvo, no. 8, 1971.)
See V. Sitnin, Komunist, September 1966
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V. Rzheshevskii, Planovoe khoziaistvo, no. 9, 1971. The price fixing authorities were hampered in their efforts by a directive that neither consumer prices nor the agricultural sector were to be adversely affected by the revision of wholesale prices. In addition the price authorities had to work with cost calculations of differing degrees of accuracy.
V. Rzheshevskii, Planovoe khoziaistvo, no. 3, 1973.
E. Kapustin, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 1, 1976.
G. Kiperman, Ekonomika i organizatsiia promyshlennego proizvodstva, no. 5, 1976
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See N. Rogovskii and G. Kiperman, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 2, 1976
J. Dvořák, Politická ekonomie, no. 1, 1976
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E. Kapustin, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 1, 1976; V. Sitnin, 1974, p. 148
and P. Buchin, Ekonomika i organizatsiia promychlennogo proizvodstva, no. 5, 1976.
N. Rogovskii and G. Kiperman, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 2, 1976
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P. Khromov, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 5, 1976
and S. Barngolc, Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 9, 1976. Barngolc indicates interesting figures on the ratio of profit to the wage-bill. According to him profit was 18 times as high as the wage-bill in the coal industry, 1328 times in oil production, and 127 times in industry as a whole.
G. Kiperman, Ekonomika i organizatsiia promyshlennego proizvodstva, no. 5, 1976.
See B. M. Sukharevskii, in Trud zarabotnaia plata v SSSR, 1975, p. 252
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See G. Abramov, Sotsialisticheskii trud, no. 6, 1977.
A. Cernes, Sotsialisticheskii trud, no. 12, 1976
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A. Cernes, Sotsialisticheskii trud, no. 12, 1976. It seems that in the chemi-cal and machine building industries no difference is made between fulfilment and over-fulfilment.
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Adam, J. (1979). Wage Regulation in the USSR. In: Wage Control and Inflation in the Soviet Bloc Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04892-2_7
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