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Novosibirsk Report was the name given in the West to a classified paper, "for internal use only", the report from a closed conference in Novosibirsk (1983) by Tatyana Zaslavskaya, regarding the crisis in the agriculture of the Soviet Union. The copies of the report found their way to the West and details were published in the Washington Post. Although expressed in terms of Marxist theory, this paper, an outline of a proposed research project to study the social mechanisms of economic development as exemplifed in Siberian agriculture, was sharply critical of current conditions.
The conference was held in April 1983, organized by the Sociology Department of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the USSR Acedemy of Sciences to discuss the report prepared under the direction of Zaslavskaya that considered lagging of "production relations" (производственные отношения) with respect to "production forces" (производительные силы) in the country.
Gorbachev discussed this report within the higher echelons of the Party, and it is believed that this report was the basis of Gorbachev's criticism of "administrative methods" in the ecomomic management at the 27th Congress of the CPSU, the congress that initiated perestroika.
References
- Tatyana Zaslavskaya, The Second Socialist Revolution: An Alternative Soviet Strategy, US edition: (in "The Second World" book series) Indiana University Press, (1990), 241 pages, ISBN 0-253-36860-X, ISBN 0-253-20614-6 (paperback)
- The Novosibirsk Report, Survey, vol. 28 (1984), no. 1 pp. 83-109.
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