Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Chapter 2 Historical Background of the Soviet Monetary Policy; 2.1 Toward the Establishment of the Soviet Monetary Management; 2.1.1 Money Must Be Eliminated but Needs to Be Used; 2.1.2 Before the Establishment of the Soviet Monetary Management; 2.2 Establishment of the Soviet Monetary Management in the 1930s; 2.2.1 Basic Idea of the Soviet Monetary Management; 2.2.2 After the Establishment of the Soviet Monetary Management; 2.3 Soviet Material Planning and Management of Money

2.3.1 Legal and Institutional Premises of the Soviet Planning System2.3.2 Basic Characteristics of the Soviet Planning System; 2.3.3 Did State Budget Funds and Bank Loans Differ in the Soviet Economy?; References; Chapter 3 Soviet Productivity Growth; 3.1 Economic Growth and Productivity Growth; 3.2 Problem of Productivity Estimation and New Estimation Methods; 3.2.1 An Extension of the Solow Residual Calculation; 3.2.2 Direct Estimation of TVP Normalized CES Production Function; 3.3 Explanation of Soviet Data Used and Estimation Results; 3.3.1 Soviet Data; 3.3.2 Estimation Results

3.4 Soviet Productivity Growth ReconsideredReferences; Chapter 4 Performance of Soviet Cash Money Management; 4.1 Soviet Monetary Policy and Management of Cash Money; 4.2 Institutional Background of Management of Cash Money; 4.2.1 Division between Cash and Non-cash Flows; 4.2.2 Cash Supply Control and Balance Method of Monetary Management; 4.3 Effectiveness of the Division Between Cash and Non-cash Money; 4.3.1 Data and Method; 4.3.2 Results; 4.4 Usefulness of the Monetary Income and Outlay Balance; 4.4.1 Data and Method; 4.4.2 Results; 4.5 Concluding Remarks; References

Chapter 5 Soviet Banking and Non-cash Money Management5.1 Gosbank in the Soviet Economy; 5.2 A Sketch of Historical Developments of Gosbank; 5.2.1 Methodological Issues of Balance Sheet Compilation; 5.2.2 Development of Gosbank's Bank Loan Supply; 5.3 Relationship Between Cash Emission and Bank Loan Supply; 5.4 Financial Sources of Gosbank Loans; 5.5 Gosbank and a Historical Change in Soviet Flow of Funds; References; Chapter 6 Money Supply and Soviet Foreign Trade; 6.1 Money Supply, Foreign Trade, and Foreign Trade Tax; 6.2 Institutional Settings and Concepts of Soviet Foreign Trade

6.2.1 Special Foreign Trade Earnings6.2.2 SFEs and Gross Output of Foreign Trade; 6.3 Data and Methods; 6.3.1 Issues Concerning the Soviet Data; 6.3.2 Methods; 6.4 Money Supply and Foreign Trade Taxes in an International Comparison; 6.4.1 Soviet SFEs; 6.4.2 Comparison Between the Soviet Union and Market Economies; 6.5 Role of Foreign Trade Taxes in the Soviet Economy; References; Chapter 7 Soviet Monetary Policy and Government Debts; 7.1 Empirical Analysis of Performance of Monetary Management and Policy; 7.1.1 Relationship Between Real and Monetary Economies

7.1.2 Organization of the Chapter