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We shall now consider how far the case-studies presented in this work allow us to make some generalisations regarding the way in which the decision-making process was structured in the Stalinist command economy. We shall examine a number of issues: the role of the economic commissariats as political lobbies; the process of managing the planned economy; the relationship between economic strains and political repression; the relationship between the structure of the planned economy and rationality in decision-making. Finally we shall consider what light the studies cast on the problem of conceptualising the Stalinist state.
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O.V. Khlevnyuk et al. (eds), Stalinskoe Politbyuro v 30-e gody (Moscow, 1995), pp. 90–2.
F. Chuev, Tak govoril Kaganovich (Moscow, 1992) p. 61.
J. Kornai, The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism (Oxford, 1993) pp. 140–45.
Peter Mihalyi, Socialist Investment Cycles (Kluwer, 1992) p. 63.
J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning (eds), Stalinist Terror (Cambridge, 1993) pp. 116–17.
For an attempt to examine these issues see E.A. Rees, ‘Stalinism: The Primacy of Politics’ in J. Channon (ed.), Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR (Basingstoke, 1997).
See O. Khlevnyuk, ‘The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937–38’ in Julian Cooper, Maureen Perrie and E.A. Rees (eds) Soviet History 1917–53 (Basingstoke/New York, 1995) pp. 158–76.
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Rees, E.A. (1997). Conclusion. In: Rees, E.A. (eds) Decision-making in the Stalinist Command Economy, 1932–37. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25295-4_11
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