Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power

by Mark R. Beissinger

How does the excessive bureaucratization of central planning affect politics in communist countries? Mark Beissinger suggests an answer through this history of the Soviet Scientific Management movement and its contemporary descendants, raising at the same time broader questions about the political consequences of economic systems.

Beissinger traces the rise and decline of administrative strategies throughout Soviet history, focusing on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674794907
• ISBN13: 9780674794900
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"