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How did the one-party, one-property, one-plan system operate in practice? Before Stalin’s death the question was hardly relevant. The Soviet Union had been living in war-like conditions, preparing and conducting war, then recovering from it, and was protecting itself against the ‘capitalist encircling’. All economic failures could be attributed to these exceptional circumstances.
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Lavigne, M. (1995). The Reforms: Experiences and Failures. In: The Economics of Transition. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24137-8_3
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