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The 1962-1963 Reforms in Soviet Economic Regionalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Z. Mieczkowski
Z. Mieczkowski*
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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The changes of 1962 and 1963 in the Soviet economic system in the wake of the decisions of the March and November 1962 plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union constitute an important link in the chain of "permanent reforms" designed to cure the chronic malfunctioning of the Soviet planning and management system. These changes are especially interesting with respect to the perennial problem of economic regionalization.

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Slavic Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1965 , pp. 479 - 496
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1965

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References

1 See the remarks of Abram Bergson and Joseph Berliner concerning the inherent need of permanent reorganization in Soviet economy (“Economic Aspects of the Party Program,” The ASTE Bulletin [of the Association for the Study of Soviet-Type Economics], IV, No. 2 [1962], p. 29).

2 , March 24, 1962.

3 , March 6 and 11, 1962.

4 Ibid., March 24, 1962.

5 (Moscow, 1957), p. 267.

6 , editions of 1930 to 1962.

7 (MOSCOW, 1962), p. 48.

8 , Nov. 20,1962.

9 (Moscow, 1963), p. 7.

10 , Nov. 20, 1962.

11 The decree of the Supreme Soviet of May 10, 1957, established 105 regions, but the number had decreased to 100 by mid-1962.

12 Separate consolidation decrees were promulgated for the republics affected. For example, the 24 amalgamated regions of the RSFSR were created by a decree of December 24, 1962, published in on December 26.

13 The industry of Kaliningrad Oblast is now subordinated to the Lithuanian sovnarkhoz, with the exception of the fishing branch, which is supervised by the Main Western Basin Industry Administration in Riga, Latvian SSR. , Oct. 19, 1963, p. 13.

14 ibid., Feb. 2, 1963.

15 In the spring of 1961 the territory of the USSR was divided into 17 major regions, the Belorussian and Moldavian SSR remaining outside this framework. Since late 1963 Belorussia has constituted the eighteenth region.

16 After the dissolution of the Central Asian sovnarkhoz in January 1965 there were five such cases.

17 See , I (Moscow, 1959), 196

18 , Nov. 20, 1962.

19 Ibid.

20 Decree of Presidium of USSR Supreme Soviet of Feb. 5, 1963, published in , Feb. 9, 1963.

21 In the case of Kaliningrad Oblast, joined, as stated above, to the economic administrative region of the Lithuanian SSR, we have an example of economic subordination of a part of a Union republic to another Union republic.

22 , May 18, 1963, p . 40.

23 , Nov. 20, 1962.

24 , p. 40.

25 The transfer of local industry to sovnarkhozy increased their share in the control of USSR's industry up to 85 percent. See Paul K. Cook, “Party, State and Economic Reorganization in the USSR,” The ASTE Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 1, 1963.

26 , Oct. 28,1964.

27 Ibid., March 14, 1963.

28 , Oct. 14, 1963, p . 12.

29 Ibid.; English translation in Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Nov. 13, 1963, p . 3.

30 See, for example, , I I (Moscow, 1963), 200.

31 See , pp. 12-13. Another terminology in this respect is discussed by AiaMnneB, II, 205.

32 , p. 13.

33 ibid.

34 The Moldavian SSR, as formerly, remains outside the framework of major economic regions.

35 For a more detailed discussion of the changes in the major economic regions, see Z. Mieczkowski, “ T h e Major Economic Regions in the USSR in the Khrushchev Era,” Canadian Geographer, IX, No. 1 (1965), 19-30.

36 , Nov. 11,1964, p p . 2-3.

37 , Jan. 13 and 15, 1965.

38 , Jan. 6, 1965, No. 1, Art. 3.

39 Ibid., March 10, 1965, No. 10, Arts. 109-10.

40 ibid., Arts. 111-15

41 , April 21,1965