The Russia & Commonweath of Independent States Handbook
Subtitle: Prospects Onto the 21st Century (Regional Handbook and Economic Development Series)
Contributors: Patrick Heenan (Editor); Monique Lamontagne (Editor)
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780814405727
Subjects: Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Development - Economic Development; International - General
First sentence: After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and a 10-year period of change and interrupted development (War Communism and the New Economic Policy), the administrative command economy was introduced in the Soviet Union by Josef Stalin, beginning in 1928 (see Gregory and Stuart; Davies; Harrison, and Wheatcroft; and Nove 1986 and 1992).