Development of Gosplan and Soviet Planning Institutions (1917–1991)

1. Vesenkha created to run nationalized industry

   Dec 14, 1917Labels: Vesenkha, VSNKh

   • Decree text
   • VSNKh

2. War Communism centralizes production and distribution

   Jun 1, 1918Labels: War Communism

   • Britannica

3. GOELRO electrification commission launched

   Feb 21, 1920Labels: GOELRO, electrification commission

   • GOELRO

4. GOELRO plan approved at Eighth Soviets Congress

   Dec 22, 1920Labels: GOELRO, Eighth Congress

   • All Russian Congress
   • GOELRO

5. Gosplan established as state planning commission

   Feb 22, 1921Labels: Gosplan, State Planning

   • Britannica
   • Gosplan

6. NEP shifts planning toward a mixed economy

   Mar 21, 1921Labels: NEP, New Economic

   • NEP
   • 10th Congress

7. 1927 Party directives begin Five-Year planning framework

   Dec 1, 1927Labels: 15th Party, Five-Year framework

   • Industrialization

8. First Five-Year Plan starts rapid industrialization push

   Oct 1, 1928Labels: First Five-Year

   • Britannica Plans
   • Waterloo Archives

9. 1957 sovnarkhoz reform decentralizes industrial management

   May 1, 1957Labels: sovnarkhoz reform, regional councils

   • Sovnarkhoz
   • CIA FOIA

10. 1965 Kosygin reform adjusts planning with profit indicators

    Sep 1, 1965Labels: Kosygin reform, 1965 reform

    • 1965 Reform

11. 1987 State Enterprise law reduces direct ministerial control

    Jul 1, 1987Labels: State Enterprise, perestroika

    • Perestroika
    • Britannica USSR

12. 1988 Cooperatives law legalizes wider non-state activity

    May 1, 1988Labels: Cooperatives law, 1988 law

    • Cooperatives law
    • Perestroika

13. Gosplan dissolved amid late-Soviet economic reorganization

    Apr 1, 1991Labels: Gosplan dissolution

    • Gosplan
    • Britannica

14. USSR dissolves, ending Soviet central planning era

    Dec 26, 1991Labels: USSR dissolution

    • USSR dissolution