{{Short description|Territorial economic management agencies in the Soviet Union}} {{expand Russian|topic=gov|date=August 2023}} '''Sovnarkhoz''' ({{langx|ru|совнархоз, совет народного хозяйства}}, ''sovet narodnogo khozyaystva'', "Council of National Economy"), usually translated as '''Regional Economic Soviet''', was an organization of the Soviet Union to manage a separate economic region. Sovnarkhozes were subordinated to the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.
Sovnarkhozes were introduced by Nikita Khrushchev in May 1957 in an attempt to combat the centralization and departmentalism of ministries.<ref name="Colton1998">{{cite book|author1-link=Timothy Colton|author=Timothy J. Colton|title=Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXM2H6tWHskC&pg=PA449|date=1 October 1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-58749-6|page=449}}</ref><ref name="Rutland2009">{{cite book|author=Peter Rutland|title=The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7oJ_UzLEnj8C&pg=PA75|date=15 October 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-12130-9|page=75}}</ref> The USSR was initially divided in 105 economic regions, with sovnarkhozes being operational and planning management;<ref name="Hanson2003">{{cite book|author=Philip Hanson|title=The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR From 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W849vz7w-YMC&pg=PA58|year=2003|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-29958-0|page=58}}</ref> the number was later reduced to 47.<ref name="CocksDaniels1976">{{cite book|author1=Paul Cocks|author2=Robert Vincent Daniels|author3=Nancy Whittier Heer|title=The Dynamics of Soviet Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2GgcXKetPEC&pg=PA111|year=1976|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-21881-9|page=111}}</ref> Simultaneously, a large number of ministries were shut down.
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Category:Government of the Soviet Union Category:Soviet phraseology Category:Nikita Khrushchev Category:1957 establishments in the Soviet Union
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