A historian of the Soviet economy's reform possibilities and limits
Alexei Safronov is a Russian economist and historian who studies the Soviet economy across its full historical span. He rejects a simple opposition between liberalization and computerization in the Kosygin reform, instead presenting it as an attempt to combine economic and mathematical methods with material incentives inside a planned economy. His account stresses that the 1965 reform was more conservative in design than later memory often suggests, while its incomplete implementation produced both measurable gains and persistent limits.
Career Timeline
- 2025Research Fellow, Institute for Social Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
- 2025Published “The Kosygin Reform: From Conception to Curtailment”
- 2025Authored The Great Soviet Economy: 1917–1991
- 2020Published research on computerization of planned-economic management in the USSR
- 현재Researches Soviet economic history and debates on reform