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Any attempt to evaluate the impact of Marxism-Leninism on policy response must recognise that ideological and pragmatic concerns need not be distinct, but may overlap and intertwine with one another, often in subtle ways … To label alternatives and arguments as either ideological or pragmatic is usually a gross over-simplification, for values are rarely, if ever, neatly separated from practical responses to problematic situations.1
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Joan DeBardeleben, ‘Marxism—Leninism and economic policy: natural resource pricing in the USSR and the GDR’, Soviet Studies, vol. 35, no. 1 (January 1983), pp. 36–52, at p. 37.
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Alec Nove, The Soviet Economy, 3rd edition (London: Allen and Unwin, 1968 ), p. 321.
See D. A. Dyker, The Soviet Economy (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976), chapter 8.
Jack Miller, ‘Marxist economic theory in the USSR’, in Vladimir G. Treml, (ed.), The Development of the Soviet Economy: Plan and Performance (New York, Washington and London: Praeger, 1968), pp. 181–96, at pp. 194–5.
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For a discussion of these irrationalities see D. A. Dyker, The Future of the Soviet Economic Planning System ( London: Croom Helm, 1985 ).
Aron Katsenelinboigen, Studies in Soviet Economic Planning ( New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1978 ), p. 66.
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See A. Berezin, ‘Vospitanie kollektivizma’, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 1984, no. 15, p. 5;
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Dyker, D.A. (1988). Ideology and Soviet Economic Policy. In: White, S., Pravda, A. (eds) Ideology and Soviet Politics. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19335-6_6
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