Book ; Online: Russia in Transition
A Business Man's Appraisal
(RLE: Early Western Responses to Soviet Russia)
2017
Abstract: 1. The Rate Of Growth -- 2. Control Of Variables -- 3· Shortage Of Supplies, Skilled Labor, And Management -- 4· World-Wide Decline Of Prices -- 5· Foreign Trade -- 6. "Miscalculations And Disproportions" -- G. Burdens Imposed By The Five-Year Plan -- 1. ...
| Series title | RLE: Early Western Responses to Soviet Russia |
|---|---|
| Abstract | 1. The Rate Of Growth -- 2. Control Of Variables -- 3· Shortage Of Supplies, Skilled Labor, And Management -- 4· World-Wide Decline Of Prices -- 5· Foreign Trade -- 6. "Miscalculations And Disproportions" -- G. Burdens Imposed By The Five-Year Plan -- 1. Curtailed Consumers' Industries -- 2. Shortage Of Consumers' Goods -- 3. Lowered Standard Of Living -- 4. Increased Pressure -- H. Results Achieved And Failures -- 1. Plan vs. Achievement -- 2. General Progress -- 3. Specific Achievements -- a. Products of Farm and Forest -- i. Farm Products -- ii. Forest Products -- iii. Foods -- b. Raw Materials -- i. Coal -- ii. Peat -- iii. Petroleum -- iv. Iron and Steel -- v. Manganese -- vi. Non-Ferrous Metals -- vii. Chemicals -- viii. Building Materials -- c. Heavy Industries -- i. Machinery Manufacture -- ii. Agricultural Machinery -- iii. Tractors and Automobiles -- iv. Electric Power -- v. Electrical Equipment -- 4. Labor -- 5. Exports -- I. Quotas Unrealized -- 1. Capital Construction -- 2. Heavy Industry -- a. Tractors -- b. Machinery -- 3. Light Industry -- 4. High Costs Of Production -- 5. Deterioration Of Quality -- 6. Rate Of Increase -- J. The Second Five-Year Plan -- K. Appraisal And Forecast -- Chapter V. Agriculture -- A. Aims -- 1. Socialism In Agriculture -- 2. Pre-War Experience -- B. Reasons For Collectives -- 1. Requisitions And Grain Levies -- 2. The Peasant Capitalist -- 3. Need Of The Five-Year Plan For Increased Output -- C. Collective Farms -- 1. Pressure To Collectivize -- 2. Inducements To Collectivize -- 3. Forms Of Collectivization -- 4. Wage Systems -- 5. Model Articles Of Association for An Artel -- 6. Extent Of Collectivization -- 7. Reduced Tempo -- a. "Dizziness from Success" -- b. Resolutions to Moderate Tempo -- c. Results of Reversal of Policy -- 8. Trading By Peasants Reappears -- 9. Result--Rationing Ends 4. Specific Shortages -- 5. Low Rations -- 6. Causes -- 7. Privileged Buyers -- 8. Queues, The Cost Of Waiting For Rations -- 9. State Stores, Higher Prices, Without Rationing -- 10. Private Trade Freed, Rationing Abandoned, Rising Prices And Wages -- 11. International Comparisons -- G. Real Wages -- 1. Present And Pre-War Levels -- a. Two Indexes--Discrepancies and Explanation -- b. Evidence of Decline in Real Wages -- c. Variation in Wage Scale -- d. Shortage of Consumers' Goods and Decline of Purchasing Power -- H. Wage Comparisons With Other Countries -- 1. International Comparisons, Present And Pre-War -- 2. Soviet Errors In Statistics -- I. Factory Discipline -- 1. Breaches Of Discipline -- 2. Causes Of Poor Discipline -- 3. Remedies For Lax Discipline -- a. Appeals to the Workers -- b. Centralization of Authority -- c. Deductions from Wages -- d. Dismissal -- e. Imprisonment or Forced Labor -- J. High Labor Turnover -- 1. Facts -- 2. Causes Of High Labor Turnover -- a. Differences in the Standards of Living -- b. Wage Differences -- 3. Remedy For High Labor Turnover -- a. Differences in Wage Scales -- b. Rewards for Staying at Jobs -- c. Penalties for Roving -- d. Severer Restrictions -- e. Injunctions on Managers -- K. Union Agreements And Strikes -- L. The Exploitation Of Labor -- 1. Piece Work And Speeding Up Of Production -- 2. Abandoning Labor Standards -- 3. Forced Labor -- a. Forms of Drafted Labor -- i. Self-Imposed Obligation -- ii. Indentured Workers -- iii. Statutory Draft -- b. Labor-Draft Decrees -- c. Instances of Forced Labor -- i. Forestry -- ii. Grain Transport -- iii. Coal Mining -- iv. River Transport -- v. General Labor -- vi. Convict Labor -- M. Industrial Democracy vs. Efficiency -- 1. Self-Expression Of Labor -- 2. Administrative Difficulties -- 3. Centralization Of Authority -- Chapter VII. Industry -- A. Raw Materials B. Capital Requirements -- C. Machinery -- D. Labor -- E. Management -- 1. The Organization Of Industry -- 2. Lack Of Experience -- 3. Lack Of Engineers -- 4. Training Of Russian Engineers -- 5. Attitude Toward Bourgeois Engineers -- a. Conciliation of Bourgeois Engineers -- b. Reasons for Reversal of Attitude -- c. Results of the New Policy -- 6. Penalties vs. Initiative -- 7. Foreign Technical AID -- a. Benefits -- b. Difficulties -- c. Remedies Proposed -- d. Suspension -- F. Foreign Contracts -- 1. American Corporation Contracts -- 2. Magnitogorsk Steel Plant -- 3. Foreign Concessions -- 4. Contracts With Individuals -- 5. Comments And Recommendations Of Foreign Engineers -- G. Scientific Management Or Rationalization -- 1. Methods -- 2. Establishment Of Wage Rates -- a. Piece Work and Bonuses -- b. Errors in Rate Making -- 3. Trade-Union Attitude -- 4. The Five-Day Week -- a. Theory -- b. Practice -- c. Stalin's Views -- d. Abandonment of the Five-Day Week -- 5. Automatic Devices -- 6. Lack Of An Efficient Spirit -- 7. Poor Planning And Inadequate Routing -- 8. Typical Situations -- a. Stalingrad Tractor Plant -- b. Magnitogorsk Steel Plant -- c. Rostov Agricultural Machinery Plant -- d. Nizhni Novgorod Automobile Plant -- e. Electric Power Plants -- f. The "Giant Plants" Don't Work! -- 9. Remedies -- a. Reduce Investigations -- b. "Towing" by "Shock Brigades" -- c. Management by Government Fiat -- d. Restoration of Small Industry -- e. Recommendations of American Engineers -- H. High Cost Of Production -- 1. Breakdown Of Machinery -- I. Quality Of Production -- 1. The Facts -- 2. Causes Of Poor Quality -- 3. Results -- 4. Remedies -- J. Accounting System -- 1. Income Accounts -- 2. Distribution Of Industrial Profits -- K. Capitalistic Aspects -- L. Remedies -- 1. Decentralization -- 2. Highly Paid Executives -- 3. Foreign AID Chapter VIII. Transportation Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytical Table Of Contents -- Part One: Postscript And Summary -- Chapter I. Perspectives -- A. Pornt Of View -- B. Historic Background And Precedents -- C Soviet AIMS -- D. Soviet Principles -- E. Qualifying Conditions Of The Experiment -- F. Soviet Method -- G. Soviet Results -- H. Effect On The Western World -- I. Communism vs. Capitalism -- J. A Forecast -- Part Two: The Background -- Chapter II. An Historical Analogy--The French Revolution -- A. The Impetus To Revolution -- B. Similarities -- 1. Prophets Of Revolution -- 2. Methods And Technique -- 3· The Course Of Events -- C. Dissimilarities Of The Two Revolutions -- 1. Differences In Aims -- 2. Differences In Privileged Classes -- 3· Differences In Method -- D. Attitude Of Europe Toward The Two Revolutions -- E. The Effects Of The French Revolution -- 1. General Effects -- 2. Liberalism And Reaction -- F. Soviet Prospects In The Light Of History -- Chapter III. The Soviet Mind -- A. Revolution--The New Revelation -- B. The War Psychosis -- C. The Sense Of Inferiority And Its Results -- D. Psychological Gains -- E. Psychological Losses -- F. The Thirst For Power -- G. The Social Heredity -- H. Changing Human Nature -- I. Psychological Reaction And Disillusionment -- Part Three: The Present Scene -- Chapter IV. The Five-Year Plan -- A. Origin And History Of The Plan -- 1. Pre-War Plan And Growth -- 2. History Of Planning -- 3· Trotsky's Version -- B. Motives Underlying The Five-Year Plan -- C. Aims Of The Five-Year Plan -- D. Program Of The Five-Year Plan -- 1. The Percentage Of Increases -- 2. The Investment -- 3· The Ambitious Scale -- 4· The Series Of Plans -- E. Method Of The Five-Year Plan -- F. Difficulties Of The Five-Year Plan D. State Farms -- 1. Growth -- 2. Operation -- 3. Difficulties -- 4. Value And Benefits -- E. Immediate Results Of Collectivization -- 1. Difficulties And Evils -- 2. Elimination Of The Kulak -- 3. Decline Of Live Stock And Prohibition Of Slaughter -- 4. Permission To Slaughter And Sell Privately -- 5. Result--Stealing Crops And De-Collectivization -- 6. Private Selling Re-Abolished -- 7. Effect On The Industrial Plan -- F. Long-Range Results Of The Agricultural Program -- 1. Increased Crops And Increased Exports -- 2. Government Independence Of The Small Peasant -- 3. Rise Of The Standard Of Living -- 4. Mechanization Of Farms -- 5. An Agricultural Proletariat -- G. Agricultural Prospects -- 1. Effect On Russia -- 2. Effect On The World -- Chapter VI. Labor -- A. Motives And Incentives -- 1. New Motives -- 2. Old Motives -- B. Supply Of Labor -- 1. Increase Of Industrial Workers -- 2. Women In Industry -- 3. Reduction Of Turnover -- 4. Quality Of Labor -- 5. Education Of Labor -- C. Hours Of Labor -- 1. Working Day -- 2. Working Week -- D. Nominal Or Money Wages -- 1. Systems Of Payment -- a. Time Work -- b. Piece Work and Bonuses -- c. Maximum Wage Limits and "Soldiering" -- d. Unlimited Maximum and Bonuses -- 2. Spread Between Skilled And Unskilled Labor -- a. Differentiation of Wage Scales -- b. Standardization of the Grades -- c. Variations Too Extreme -- d. Reduction of the Spread -- 3. Nominal Wages By Industries And By Years -- 4. Supplementary Compensation And Socialized Wage -- a. Nature and Amount -- b. Offsetting Deductions -- 5. Opinion Of Soviet Officials -- E. Social Welfare -- 1. Labor Standards -- 2. Recreation -- 3. Education -- 4. Social Insurance And Public Health -- F. Standards Of Living And Cost Of Living -- 1. Comparison With Pre-War Standards -- 2. Geographical Differences In Cost -- 3. Price Indexes And Some Price Lists |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 Online-Ressource (651 pages) |
| Document type | Book ; Online |
| ISBN | 9781138085473 ; 9781351618625 ; 9781138085473 ; 1138085472 ; 1351618628 ; 1138085472 |
| Database | ECONomics Information System |
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