Tracing Consumer Demand in the USSR: Official Soviet Ministry of Trade Order No. 68, the Bureaucratic Substitutes for Price Tracking in the Post-Stalin Planned Economy, 1955
USSR Ministry of Trade pamphlet containing Order No. 68, “On the Study of Population Demand for Goods,” issued 21 January 1955 under Minister of Trade A. Mikoyan. The pamphlet was used in the Soviet Union as an enforcement rulebook, designed for measuring consumer demand inside a dictatorial planned economy that.....