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State Supplies of the USSR, known as the Gossnab of USSR (Russian: Госснаб СССР) was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. It was the State Committee for Material Technical Supply in the Soviet Union. It was charged with the primary responsibility for the allocation of producer goods to enterprises, a critical state function in the absence of markets.

Gossnab was one of more than twenty state committees under the Council of Ministers, the administrative arm of the Soviet government, along with other economic organs such as Gosplan (the state planning committee) and Gosbank (the state bank). Created amid a series of economic reforms implemented under Premier Alexei Kosygin in the mid-1960s, Gossnab coordinated the allocation of resources not handled by Gosplan. Gossnab had mixed success in creating a wholesale trade system, based on direct contracts between suppliers and users.[1]

Narkomprod

Originally founded in 1917 as the People's Commissariat for Food Supplies (Russian: Наркомпрод, Народный комиссариат продовольствия, translit. Narodny Commissariat Prodovolstviya, often abbreviated as Narkomprod) was the People's Commissariat (ministry) of the Russian SFSR in charge of food supplies and industrial goods. The first Commissar was Ivan Teodorovich.

There were several subsidiary organisations:

The Narkomprod was responsible in June 1918 for the attempted organisation of 'committees of the poor' in provincial villages. This was an attempt to encourage a 'class war' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the peasants were not resentful of 'kulaks' (rich peasants) as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests (for example, their own land ownership).[2]

Commissars

Reformation as Gossnab

The Commissariat was reformed as a state committee in 1948. It performed the functions of: implementation of plans for material and technical supply, distribution of products to consumers according to the established nomenclature, ensuring inter-industry cooperative supplies, monitoring the timeliness of implementation of product delivery plans  .

The Gossnab coordinated with the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan), the Ministry of Finance of the USSR and the sectoral ministries and departments of the USSR and the Union republics.

Chairmen of the Gossnab

See also

References

  1. ^ "Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of 05/15/1969 No. 352 "On the approval of the Regulations on the State Committee of the USSR", Article 3".
  2. ^ "Scientific research institute for economics and organization of material-technical supply at the Gossnab of the Soviet Union (Russian. НИИМС; transcription: NIIMS)". ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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