The role of the state planning committees of the USSR and the RSFSR in the first months of the reform of the supreme economic council

The author examines the role of the Gosplans (State Planning Committees) of the USSR and the RSFSR in the first six months of the implementation of the Sovnarkhoz (Supreme Economic Council) reform. He analyzes the personnel appointments of N. S. Khrushchev in the planning departments, and also reveals the impact of the defeat of the «anti-party group» on the start of the reform. The author’s attention is focused on the attempts of the State Planning Committees of the USSR and the RSFSR to take the initiative in managing the Sovnarkhoz at the initial stage of the reform. He argues that the Gosplan of the RSFSR was quickly pushed away from this work. An analysis of changes in the regulatory framework of the reform, as well as the additional functions assigned to the USSR State Planning Committee, and the results of two meetings at the center with representatives of the Sovnarkhoz in July and December 1957 helps to trace the direction of the beginning of the evolution of the territorial management system.