Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Regional input into centralized economic planning: The case of Soviet Central Asia

  • Published:
Policy Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This article uses the case of the Soviet Union to demonstrate that in centrally planned economies there remain both incentives and channels for regional administrators to express local interests to the center and have these interests reflected in national policy decisions. Debate over future economic development in Soviet Central Asia is fascinating in what it reveals concerning the nature of center-periphery relations in the USSR and the limitations these relations impose on centrally planned economies. The debate shows that even in a system which so highly values centralized economic planning, regional planners often give priority to local over national economic needs in their policy proposals and are able to affect policy decisions made in Moscow. The findings are relevant to all centrally planned economies and must be considered in any evaluation of this economic model.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Abrarov, Z. S. (ed.) (1977). Razvitiye i razmeshcheniye proizvoditel'nykh sil i ispol'zovaniye trudovykh resursov. Tashkent: NIEI.

    Google Scholar 

  • Akramov, Z. M. (Head of the Geography Department in the Uzbek Academy of Sciences) (1979), interview held at Tashkent State University on September 24, 1979.

  • Akramov, Z. M. and Zaitsev, V. (1961). “K voprosu o razmeshchenii proizvodstva v Uzbekistane,” Narodnoye khoziaistvo Uzbekistana no. 7

  • Aktual'nye problemy povyscheniya kachestva produktsii, proizvoditel'nosti truda, ieffektivnosti proizvodstva (materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii). Tashkent: Fan (1976).

  • Allworth, E., (1967). Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule. New York: Columbia University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Allworth, E., (ed.) (1973). The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia. New York: Praeger Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ata-Mirzaev, O. B. (1979). Regional'noye prognozirovaniye rasseleniya i upravleniye protsessom urbanizatsii. Tashkent: Fan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Azrael, J. (ed.) (1978). Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices. New York: Praeger Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bedrintsev, K. N. (1974). Proizvoditel'nye sily Uzbekistana i perspektivy ikh razvitiya. Tashkent: Fan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bedrintsev, K. N. and Zakirov, Sh. (1960) “Orazmeshchenii proizvoditel'nykh sil v Uzbekistane,” Narodnoye khoziastvo Uzbekistana no. 6.

  • Bedrintsev K. N. and Zakirov, Sh. (1961). “Problemy razmeshcheniya promyshlennosti Uzbekistana,” Kommunist Uzbekistana no. 12.

  • Bialer, S. (1980). Stalin's Successors: Leadership Stability and Change in the Soviet Union New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Egamberdyev, A. E. (1976). Regional'nye problemy vosproizvodstva rabochei sily v Uzbekistane. Tashkent: Fan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fedorenko, N. P. (1975). Problemy optimizatsii razvitiya narodnokhoziastvennogo khlopkovogo kompleksa Moscow: Nauka.

    Google Scholar 

  • Feshbach, M. (1975). “Population and manpower trends in the USSR.” Paper presented at the Conference on Soviet Central Asia held at the Kennan Institute (October 31, 1978).

  • Gustafson, T. (1981). Reform in Soviet Politics: Lessons of Recent Policies on Land and Water. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodnett, G. (1974). “Technology and social change in Soviet Central Asia,” in H. Morton and R. Tokes (eds.), Soviet Politics and Society in the 1970s. New York: The Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karakhanov, M. K. (1979). Nekapitalisticheskii put' razvitiya i problemy narodonaseleniya (Sotsial'noekonomicheskii analiz opyta respublik Srednei Azii v reshenii problem narodonaseleniya). (0.800.18 Ekonomika narodonaseleniya i demografiya. 0.800.01 Politicheskaya ekonomika). Dissertation defended at Tashkent State University (19 December 1979).

  • Karakhanov. M. K. (Professor of Demography) (1979). Interview at Tashkent State University on November 12, 1979.

  • Kostatov, V. G. and Manevich, E. L. (1978). Regional'nye problemy naseleniya i trudovye resursov SSSR. Moscow: Statistika.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mazanov, M. B. (ed.) (1971). Problemy razvitiya vostochnykh raionov SSSR. Moscow: Nauka.

    Google Scholar 

  • McAuley, A. (1979). “Impact and importance of regional development for Soviet trade,” in Regional Development in the USSR: Trends and Prospects. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Ressearch Partners.

    Google Scholar 

  • Micklin, P. (1977). “Nawapa and two Siberian water diversion proposals: a geographical comparison and appraisal,” Soviet Geography: Review and Translation vol. 18, no 2.

  • Muminova, I. M. (1974). Istoriya rabochego klassa Sovetskogo Uzbekistana. Tashkent: Fan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Narodnoye khoziaistvo Uzbekskoi SSR v 1977 godu (1978). Tashkent: Uzbekistan.

  • Orazel'dyev, M. (1979). “Podgotovka kadrov iz mestnogo naseleniya v respublikh Srednei Azii,” Voprosy ekonomiki no. 5.

  • Perevedentsev, V. (1970). “Migratsiya naseleniya i ispol'zovaniye trudovykh resursov,” Voprosy ekonomiki no. 9.

  • Rakowska-Harmstone, T. (1974). “Ethnic politics in the USSR,” Problems of Communism no. 3.

  • Safaev, A. S. (1973). Optimizatsiya otrasli promyshlennosti v ekonomicheskom raione. Moscow: Nauka.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shabad, T. (1979). “Some aspects of Central Asian manpower and urbanization,” Soviet Geography: Review and Translation vol. 20, no 2.

  • Shils, E. (1979). Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shister, G. A. (1975). Promyshlennye rabochiye Uzbekistana. Tashkent: Uzbekistan.

  • Sydikov, U. S. and Gaiibnazarov, M. M. (1978). “K voprosu effektivnogo ispol'zovaniya trudovykh resursov v sel'skoi mestnosti UzSSR,” Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane no. 8.

  • Tarrow, S. (1977). Between Center and Periphery: Grassroots Politicians in Italy and France. New Haven: Yale University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tursunov, Kh. K. and Tsibazov, B. I. (1977). “Regional'noye rasseleniye i problemy preobrazovaniya sel'skoi mestnosti Uzbekistana,” Stroitel'stvo i arkhitektura Uzbekistana no. 10.

  • Uralov, A. (1979). Promyshlennost' Uzbekistana v usloviyakh razvitogo sotsializma. Tashkent: Uzbekistan.

  • Ziyadullaev, N. S. (1971). “Problemy optimizatsii razvitiya legkoi industrii Uzbekistana v svete reshenii XXIV S'ezda KPPS,” Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane no. 8.

  • Ziyadullaev, S. K. (1978). “Razvitiye proizvoditel'nykh sil i problemy vodoobespecheniya Srednei Azii,” Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane no. 9.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, 60115, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

    Terese S. Zimmer

Authors
  1. Terese S. Zimmer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The author wishes to thank the International Research and Exchanges Board for its support of research and travel.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Zimmer, T.S. Regional input into centralized economic planning: The case of Soviet Central Asia. Policy Sci 18, 111–126 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136716

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136716

Keywords

Search

Navigation