Editing Sovnarkhoz (section)

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'''Sovnarkhoz''' ({{langx|ru|совнархоз, совет народного хозяйства}}, ''sovet narodnogo khozyaystva'', "Council of National Economy"), usually translated as '''Regional Economic Soviet''', was an organization of the [[Soviet Union]] to manage a separate economic region.
Sovnarkhozes were subordinated to the [[Supreme Soviet of the National Economy]].

Sovnarkhozes were introduced by [[Nikita Khrushchev]] in May 1957 in an attempt to combat the centralization and departmentalism of ministries.<ref name="Colton1998">{{cite book|author1-link=Timothy Colton|author=Timothy J. Colton|title=Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXM2H6tWHskC&pg=PA449|date=1 October 1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-58749-6|page=449}}</ref><ref name="Rutland2009">{{cite book|author=Peter Rutland|title=The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7oJ_UzLEnj8C&pg=PA75|date=15 October 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-12130-9|page=75}}</ref> The [[USSR]] was initially divided in 105 economic regions, with sovnarkhozes being operational and planning management;<ref name="Hanson2003">{{cite book|author=Philip Hanson|title=The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR From 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W849vz7w-YMC&pg=PA58|year=2003|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-29958-0|page=58}}</ref> the number was later reduced to 47.<ref name="CocksDaniels1976">{{cite book|author1=Paul Cocks|author2=Robert Vincent Daniels|author3=Nancy Whittier Heer|title=The Dynamics of Soviet Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2GgcXKetPEC&pg=PA111|year=1976|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-21881-9|page=111}}</ref> Simultaneously, a large number of ministries were shut down.