Table Of Contents:

The Analytical Framework 1(31)

Strengths and Weaknesses of Analysis by an Outside Observer 4(6)

The Concept of Economic Reform 10(10)

Stages of Economic Reform 20(11)

Soviet Economic Performance: Strengths and Weaknesses 31(63)

On the Need for a Balanced Picture 33(1)

Assessing Soviet Economic Performance 34(3)

Soviet Economic Performance: Strengths 37(13)

Soviet Economic Performance: Weaknesses 50(42)

The Economic Reform Problem 92(2)

The Soviet Economic System As It Is Designed to Operate 94(59)

Formal versus De Facto Systems, and the Logic of Both 96(5)

The Formal System 101(46)

The Formal System in Action 147(6)

The Soviet Economic System As It Actually Operates 153(68)

Comparison between the Formal and De Facto Systems 153(8)

The Decisionmaking Hierarchy 161(21)

The Information System 182(15)

The Incentive System 197(14)

The De Facto System in Action 211(10)

Kruschchev to Brezhnev: Previous Efforts at Economic Reform 221(36)

The Sovnarkhoz Reforms 223(4)

The 1965 Reforms 227(18)

The 1973 Industrial Reorganization 245(5)

The July 1979 Decree 250(5)

Common Elements in the History of Reforms 255(2)

Setting the Stage for Gorbachev: Andropov, Chernenko, and the Debates 257(46)

Andropov and the Economy 258(15)

Chernenko's Year 273(1)

Debates on the Economic System 274(29)

The Gorbachev Reforms 303(62)

Gorbachev's Goals for the Economy 306(3)

Overview of Gorbachev's Economic Strategy 309(1)

The Pre-Reform Stage 310(12)

Economic Reforms 322(11)

The Reforms of 1985-86 and their Relationship to the Osnovnye Polozheniia 333(15)

Guideposts to the Future 348(17)

The USSR on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century 365(28)

Measuring the Impact of Gorbachev's Economic Strategy 367(3)

Measures of Qualitative Change 370(3)

Alternative Scenarios for the Gorbachev Reforms 373(6)

The West and the Reform Process 379(11)

The USSR in the Twenty-first Century 390(3)
Index 393