Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) in the System of Top Political Leadership (1955-1964)
V.L. Nekrasov
Keywords: Chairman of State Planning Committee (Gosplan) of the USSR, N.S.Khrushchev, top political leadership, "images of the planners"
Pages: 66-70
Abstract
The paper focuses on the issues related to the changing status of the Gosplans Chairman in the top political leadership; factors that determined his political influence; problems of his loyalty to the leader of the country; level of professionalism of the heads of planning bodies; institutional characteristics of the heads of Gosplan and images of planners. The author comes to conclusion that during N.S.Khrushchevs reign the State Planning Committee of the USSR lost its political influence and was entirely submitted to the Party machinery.
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