SOVIET ECONOMIC MODEL AND KOSYGIN REFORM 1965 IN THE EVALUATION OF WESTERN SOVIETOLOGY

Article is devoted to reflection of the Soviet economic model and economic reform of 1965 in the western, in particular, Anglo- American Sovietology. The author briefly stops on the main maintenance of the Soviet economic reform of 1965 and its destiny and explains why this piece of the Soviet economic history I caused fixed interest of the western Sovietology. Describing researches of the western Sovietology, the author focuses attention of readers that real statistics of the Soviet economy, figures and events, were closed both for the western researcher, and for the ordinary Soviet inhabitant. Generally to works of the western Sovietology treated as intended falsification.Not all works of the western experts were equivalent. The most realistic picture displaying processes and the facts of the Soviet post-war economy is presented in works of emigrants from the USSR - I. Birman’s (Igor Birman) economists of A. Katsenelenbogen (Aron Katsenelinboigen). Their conclusions stated in scientific works could be sounded in the Soviet scientific literature only under a signature stamp of «the critic of bourgeois theories».The author specifies that the analysis of the Soviet economy was made by the western Sovietology generally from comparativistic perspective. In the course there were theories of «unsuccessful connection» (Ya. Kornai), «administrative economy» (R. Campbell), etc.In more detail the author stops at works of A. Bergson who considers as the most qualified specialist who adequately displayed the Soviet economic reality of the 1960-70th. Speaking about success of works of A. Bergson, the author specifies that his works relied on broad financing within the project which was carried out by request of CIA. For many years the western Sovietology was considered a priori as intended falsification of the Soviet history. And only access to real figures and the facts of the Soviet economic reality of the post-war period allowed to estimate in a new way its analysis, scientific character and objectivity.The article is constructed on original historical material and can be interesting to a wide range of readers.

command-administrative model, direction, economic reform, management, concept, decision, plan, sovietology, theory

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