Communism and Economic Modernization

Brezhnev's Economic Choice: More Weapons and Control or Economic Modernization

At the December 1969 Plenum of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU), Leonid Brezhnev made it a matter of record that improved economic performance was a first order agenda item for the Party. From that date to the once postponed 24th Party Congress in March 1971 a Soviet style policy debate appeared to rage on the contents of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for the period 197 1-75 inclusive. The discussi...

The fallacy of communism.

Marxism after communism

It is with apprehension but also conviction that I defend Marxism today1apprehension because we live in a period that is suspicious of visions of alternative futures, skeptical of grand historical narrative, dismissive of materialist explanations, rejecting of class analysis while tolerating capitalism's defects and pathologies as unavoidable and natural; conviction because we live in a period ...

economic optimization and energy consumption in tray dryers

دراین پروژه به بررسی مدل سازی خشک کردن مواد غذایی با استفاده از هوای خشک در خشک کن آزمایشگاهی نوع سینی دار پرداخته شده است. برای آنالیز انتقال رطوبت در طی خشک شدن به طریق جابجایی، یک مدل لایه نازک برای انتقال رطوبت، مبتنی بر معادله نفوذ فیک در نظر گفته شده است که شامل انتقال همزمان جرم و انرژی بین فاز جامد و گاز می باشد. پروفایل دما و رطوبت برای سه نوع ماده غذایی شامل سیب زمینی، سیب و موز در طی...

March 2001 TURKMENISTAN: FROM COMMUNISM TO NATIONALISM BY GRADUAL ECONOMIC REFORM

Turkmenistan’s economic performance during the first decade after independence isinteresting because it is an extreme case, regularly ranking last among all the former centrallyplanned economies by transition indicators measuring speed of reform or degree of economicliberalization. This paper analyses the evolution of the economic system and Turkmenistan’seconomic development si...