| Titre | Wheeling and dealing in Soviet industry : Syndicates, trade, and political economy at the end of the 1920's | |
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| Auteur | David Shearer | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 36, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1995 Cultures économiques et politiques économiques dans l'Empire tsariste et en URSS, 1861 - 1950 | |
| Page | 139-159 | |
| Résumé anglais |
David Shearer, Wheeling and dealing in Soviet industry: Syndicates, trade, and political economy at the end of the 1920s. The story of rapid industrialization and the transition from NEP to a bureaucratically administered economy in the late 1920's and early 1930's is often told as if it was an inevitable process. The history of the syndicated trade movement in Soviet industry shows that this was not so. The rise of the syndicates to their preeminent position during the last years of the 1920's attests to the persistence, not the diminishing strength, of a viable commercial culture within the state-owned industrial sectors of the Soviet economy. The brief but successful story of the syndicates in the last years of the 1920's opened up the intriguing possibility of a middle way, a way to combine commercial organization of the economy with planned indastrial development. This article examines the activities of the syndicates in the late 1920's and their tangled web of relations with the state's industrial producers and chief economic administrations. This paper argues that Stalinist party officials and economic planners did not see the syndicates as a weapon to use against NEP, as we have traditionally believed, but as a danger to their own plans. The Stalinists' campaign in 1929 and 1930 to abolish the syndicates testified to the threat the syndicates posed to the building of a centralized industrial state. Destruction of industry's nascent commercial culture and the construction of a centralized, bureaucratic economy was not the inevitable consequence of rapid industrialization, but the result of the Stalinists' political will to build a powerful state. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1995_num_36_1_2424 |
