#+title: to what extent was the Soviet Union planned? Nominally the [[file:20200611204207-soviet_union.org][Soviet Union]] was a [[file:20210318213708-central_planning.org][planned economy]], however it's not clear to me to what extent that was true. The [[file:20200707205243-bolsheviks.org][Bolsheviks]] didn't initially plan for a planned economy. [[file:20210120230148-gosplan.org][Gosplan]] was eventually developed but it may not have driven the economy. Hillel Ticktin says that the Soviet Union was a [[file:20210611100026-non_mode_of_production.org][non-mode of production]].