Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy

by Paul R. Gregory

Book Overview

Inefficient, overstaffed and indifferent to the public's needs, the Soviet economic bureaucracy operates today much as it did in the 1930s. In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Paul R. Gregory takes an inside look at how this system works and why it has traditionally been so resistant to change. Gregory's findings shed light on a bureaucracy that is widely considered the greatest threat to Gorbachev's efforts at perestroika, or restructuring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521363861
• ISBN13: 9780521363860
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"