“SECOND ECONOMY” OF THE “KHRUSHCHEV THAW” ERA IN THE BASSR

Abstract

N.S. Khrushchev’s partial liberalization of Soviet society was clearly manifested in the reform of the extreme version of the command economy of the Stalinist type. It was implemented in the emergency conditions of the Great Patriotic War. In the “thaw era” it caused an unexpected and uncalculated social effect in the form of a public demand for a better material life. De jure, in the era of "Khrushchev's reforms", the management of the national economy of the country was carried out with the help of administrative means: commands, directives, quotas, rationing, determination of planned targets, etc. De facto, post-Stalinist type of command management of the national economic complex of the country could not prevent the emergence of shadow elements. They began to gradually infiltrate various sectors of the socialist economy. The central idea in the analysis of the planned national economy is the concept that the Soviet-type post-NEP command economy has consistently been an alternative to the "market". The article, on the basis of new archival documents, reveals the reasons for the change in social orientations and worldviews on the national periphery among part of the Soviet society, which in the era of the “Khrushchev thaw” took the path of “parasitic-consumptive enrichment”.