The Economic Policies of the Khrushchev Decade

Historiography

Bibliographic Data

ID21241872
AuthorsEvgeny Artemov (0000-0002-3683-1063, National Research Tomsk State University), Evgeny Vodichev (0000-0001-8266-1723, National Research Tomsk State University)
Year2020
Volume8
Issue5
Publication date2020-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQuaestio Rossica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2311-911X • E-ISSN: 2313-6871
PublisherUral Federal University (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.15826/qr.2020.5.562
OpenAlexW3115064285
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

This paper analyses the historiography of the economic policy of the Khrushchev decade, revealing debated issues and gaps in the study of the field. The authors review works published on this issue, relying on the principles of historicism traditional for historiographical research, i. e. grouping methods based on the classification of problem fields in academic literature and methodological approaches used in scholarship. As a result of the research, the authors conclude that despite a solid groundwork in the study of the economic policy of the Khrushchev decade, a few fundamental issues have not yet been resolved. In particular, there is no universal periodisation. It is also not clear at what expenses were planned for increasing the economy’s efficiency, why this could not be achieved, and what role was played by scientific and technological progress. Additionally, it is not quite clear to what extent this was based on borrowing foreign technologies and/or practical mastery of the results of research produced in the country and how the military-industrial orientation of economic policy was supplemented by the consumer-oriented component and what consequences this led to. Furthermore, there are no special studies on several aspects of the integrated economic policy, such as investment, fiscal and monetary policies, price and income regulation, and the planning and financing of the defense industry. The authors consider the study of these topics, along with deepening the historiographical directions that have already been developed, an urgent task

Economic growth · Economics · Fiscal policy · Historicism · Historiography · Macroeconomics · Political science · Scholarship · Economic and Technological Developments in Russia · Economic Development and Digital Transformation · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy

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