Socialist economies: planning, self-management and reform

Compare national planning and different reform paths. Solid lines trace changes within a trajectory; dotted lines mark influence. Countries sharing a column do not necessarily share a lineage. Open entries for institutions, outcomes, limitations and sources.

1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 USSR Central/Eastern Europe Yugoslavia China Vietnam/Laos Management reform within planning Search for an independent course Central planning and later revision Reform of postwar institutions Reform after state-building WarCommunism1918 NewEconomicPolicy(NEP)1921 Plannedeconomy1928 LibermanDebate1962 The KosyginReform1965 PerestroikaandGlasnost1985 East GermanNewEconomicSystem1963 Czechoslovakeconomicreform ofthe 1960s1965 GoulashCommunism1968 Polisheconomiccrisis of1980–19811980 Romaniandebtrepaymentandausterity1981 TheTito-StalinSplit1948 Workers’self-management1950 Chineseeconomicreform1978 End of theVietnam Warand statereunification1976 Đổi Mới1986 Establishmentof the LaoPDR1975 Lao NewEconomicMechanism1986 PRCestablished1949
succession · split · merger influence antagonism suppression