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The reluctant retreat

the Soviet and East German departure from central planning

by Phillip J. Bryson

1995 410 pages eng

The Reluctant Retreat asks why the economic system of East European socialism failed. It reviews the nature of the central planning system, focusing on the institutions of the most avid planning regimes, the USSR and East Germany. As it investigates their attempts to escape from the inefficiencies o…

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