TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article investigates the intellectual roots of perestroika. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the architect of perestroika claims that his programmes and policies are aimed at a
revolutionary transformation of the Soviet economy from an overly
centralised command system of management to a democratic system based
mainly on economic methods and on an optimal combination of centralism
and self‐management. To facilitate the restructuring process, Gorbachev
simultaneously initiated two sweeping political reforms: glasnost (no “radical change is possible without it”); and demokratizatsiya (”there is no present‐day socialism, nor can
there be, without democracy”). Therefore, prominent features
envisaged by perestroika would presumably include: an optimal
combination between centralism and self‐management, that would imply
decentralisation in the economic management of the country; replacement
of administrative methods by economic methods, that would emphasise
economic incentives and market processes more than machineries of
central planning; democratisation and openness in Soviet society, aimed
at guaranteeing greater democratic rights for citizens, and pluralism in
governmental and political processes.
VL  - 18
IS  - 5/6/7
SN  - 0306-8293
DO  - 10.1108/03068299110137046
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299110137046
AU  - Elliott John E.
AU  - Dowlah Abu F.
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - Intellectual Precursors of Perestroika
T2  - International Journal of Social Economics
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 175
EP  - 206
Y2  - 2024/05/11
ER  -