all economic production
Central planning enabled even the poorest peasants to have enough food, shelter, education and medical treatment.
The Gosplan
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Vladimir Lenin
Central planning enabled even the poorest peasants to have enough food, shelter, education and medical treatment.
Perestroika is an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency. However, it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy.
To answer the key economic questions of production and comsuption.
Vladimir Lenin
Stalin developed his five part plan for the success of the Soviet Union on a piecemeal basis. The plan included the following:* Rapid industrialization; * Central economic planning; * Collectivization of agriculture; * Socialism in one country; and * Push for a radical leftist policy in the Communist International.
The U.S. countered Soviet threats during the Cold War by planning a defense to possible nuclear attacks. They also used economic attacks to neutralize the Soviet Union.
The economic policies of the former Soviet Union were a major failure which is just one of the reasons the Soviet Union no longer exists. Consumer goods were 2nd to Defense projects and Space exploration. Finally the leaders of the USSR realized that centralized economic planning simply cannot work. Freer economies have their faults but few can compare to the dismal performance of "communist" Economics.