Seven years that shook Soviet economic and social thinking Reflections on the revolution in communist economics 1985-1991

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The main theme of this thesis is to analyse the Soviet economic theoretical debate in the period 1985-1991. Michail Gorbachev, the new secretary general of the Communist Party, increased the possibilities of a more open discussion, also in the academic debate on economic theory. From 1990 the discussion became free when a transition to market economy was decided. In the years 1985-1989 the economists defended the socialist theoretical system and attacked the central aspects of the market economy. If certain ideas and principles of market economics were deemed as functioning methods, it was argued that these could be integrated within the socialist system. The conclusion is that the Soviet economists failed to solve some central theoretical problems in the Soviet economy. Their thinking did not have a stabilizing effect on the dominating socialist theory. In 1990 and 1991 market economic...

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