Competition in Socialist Society (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138573744 ISBN 13: 9781138573741

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book explores how the concept of "competition", which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise "co-operation", rather than competitive mechanisms. The book considers competition in a wider range of industries and social fields across the Soviet bloc, and shows how the gradual adoption and adaptation of Western practices led to the emergence of more open competitiveness in socialist society. The book includes discussion of the state’s view of competition, and focuses especially on how competition operated at the grassroots level. It covers politico-economic reforms and their impact, both overall and at the enterprise level; competition in the cultural sphere; and the huge effect of increasing competition on socialist ways of thinking.

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About the Author

Katalin Miklóssy is an Assistant Professor in Political History at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138573744
• ISBN 13: 9781138573741
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Miklóssy Katalin