Supreme Soviet of the National Economy
Высший совет народного хозяйства | |
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic | |
Headquarters | Moscow |
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Supreme Board of the National Economy, Superior Board of the People's Economy, (Высший совет народного хозяйства, ВСНХ, Vysshiy sovet narodnogo khozyaystva, VSNKh) was the superior state institution for management of the
1917–1932
The VSNKh of the first period was the supreme organ of the management of the economy, mainly of the
Foundation
The VSNKh was launched on December 5, 1917 through a
Reorganisation
After the creation of the Soviet Union in 1923 it was transformed into the joint all-Union and republican People's Commissariat. In 1932, it was reorganized into three People's Commissariats: of heavy industry, light industry and forestry.
In each of the
Organisational structure
Part of Soviet economics |
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Within the VSNKh, departments were split into two types.
Functional sector departments
Departments within the functional sector dealt with decisions relating to finance, planning, economic policy, and research and development.
Industrial sector departments
Departments of this type were created by decree in 1926 and consisted of "chief departments", known as glavki (glavnye upravlenija).
Heads of all the departments in this sector formed the council of the all-union VSNKh together with representatives from the union republics.
Heads of the VSNKh
- Valerian Osinsky(1917–1918)
- Alexei Rykov (1918–1920)
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (1924–1926)
- Valerian Kuibyshev(1926–1930)
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1930–1932)
1963–1965
Vesenkha was reestablished by
Sovnarkhozes were introduced by
References
- ^ Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR. New Edition. London: Penguin Books, 1989; pg. 42.
- ^ a b Brinton, Maurice (1970). The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control: The State and Counter Revolution. London: Solidarity.
Further reading
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Ordzhonikidze's Takeover of Vesenkha: A Case Study in Soviet Bureaucratic Politics," Soviet Studies, vol. 37, no. 2 (April 1985), pp. 153–172. In JSTOR