Alexei Kosygin considered not only an experienced manager and skilled, energetic organizer, but also the most intelligent and clever Prime Minister for the entire postwar period, the Soviet Union.
It helped a lot and "Kosygin reform" - the first post-war attempt to transition to a market economy of the Soviet plane.It covered not only all branches of industry and agriculture, but also virtually all spheres of life.
«Kosygin reform" was aimed at increasing economic incentives and self-organization.According to the decision of the Plenum of the CPSU in 1965, it was decided to reform all industrial enterprises.The main objective of this decision is ultimately improving the efficiency of their work.
provides, inter Gross, introduce the concept of cost of sales, creation of a common fund of the salary, the total amount of centralized capital investments.In order to stimulate the activity of the companies provided income to keep them.
«Kosygin reform" had several objectives: to strengthen the vertical of power, restore the central ministries of industry, eliminate economic councils.
implement reforms in 1965 even when the general secretary Leonid Brezhnev.And if he dared to stop the flywheel reforms launched even under his predecessor - Khrushchev, Kosygin economic reform is likely to be passed.Although no change of power, no "palace" coup were unable to cancel the current time when the requirements of the economy.
Before the reform every step of the collective enterprises was regulated to the last detail, blocked any attempt at economic maneuvers.Across the country, a military staff acting system with its dominant slogan: "at any price to give the plan."
in the country "Kosygin reform" was greeted ambiguously.Many business executives saw it as a good opportunity to earn extra money, others predicted the economy of the final collapse.
Companies were able to become economically self-reliant, so look for opportunities to increase their profits.At the same time, the transition into the lucrative figure spurred inflation in the country.
However, according to many economists, during the "Kosygin reform" in its economic and social indicators was the best of all the years of the postwar period.
However, reform was not perfect: it is a set of contradictory and disparate solutions asthe expansion of the autonomy of enterprises combined with the strengthening of the powers of the ministries.
It was all about the fact that implementing the individual market regulators in the non-market command-administrative system, "Kosygin reform" did not give the most important for the market economy - free to the regulated price.And this, in turn, limited the effect of the driving levers as profitability and profit.As a result, the country began a hidden inflation, profits not by improving the efficiency of production, and because of the artificially high prices, and many other serious problems.
is why very soon the top party leadership felt that at their absolute power began to loom a threat.And by the mid 70s the reform was phased out, and the objectives it had not been achieved.
reformers, including himself Kosygin, understand that it is necessary to reform the economy, not the Soviet Union, and the foundations of the social system, a way of life.However, they did not represent the mechanism by which it should be carried out, although aware that they created "child" can actually undermine the foundations of the state and disrupt the stability of the country.
