--- title: "1 Geoffrey Hosking Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "British historian... | Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b060/author-geoffrey-hosking-239351.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Geoffrey Hosking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b060/author-geoffrey-hosking-239351.jpg) # Geoffrey Hosking (1942) Historian **1** quotes in **6** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Geoffrey Hosking is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Geoffrey Hosking Born April 28, 1942 Profession Historian ## About Geoffrey Hosking British historian... \| Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College, London. He also co-founded Nightline. ## Quotes by Geoffrey Hosking > [“A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of Economics, highlighted the difficulties. Aganbegyan noted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-hosking/a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june-1965-by-abel-aganbegyan/) Geoffrey Hosking [Communism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/geoffrey-hosking-159654_central-economy_a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june_778144.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-hosking/#itemlist", "name": "Geoffrey Hosking Quotes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of Economics, highlighted the difficulties. Aganbegyan noted that the growth rate of the Soviet economy was beginning to decline, just as the rival US economy seemed particularly buoyant; at the same time, some sectors of the Soviet economy - housing, agriculture, services, retail trade - remained very backward, and were failing to develop at an adequate rate. The root causes of this poor performance he saw in the enormous commitment of resources to defense (in human terms, 30-40 million people out of a working population of 100 million, he reckoned), and the 'extreme centralism and lack of democracy in economic matters' which had survived from the past. In a complex modern society, he argued, not everything could be planned, since it was impossible to foresee all possible contingencies and their potential effects. So the plan amounted to central command, and even that could not be properly implemented for lack of information and of modern data-processing equipment. 'The Central Statistical Administration ... does not have a single computer, and is not planning to acquire any,' he commented acidly. Economic administration was also impeded by excessive secrecy: 'We obtain many figures... from American journals sooner than they are released by the Central Statistical Administration.' Hence the economy suffered from inbuilt distortions: the hoarding of goods and labour to provide for unforeseen contingencies, the production of shoddy goods to fulfill planning targets expressed in crude quantitative terms, the accumulation of unused money by a public reluctant to buy substandard products, with resultant inflation and a flourishing black market.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Geoffrey Hosking" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-hosking/a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june-1965-by-abel-aganbegyan/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/geoffrey-hosking-159654_central-economy_a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june_778144.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/geoffrey-hosking-159654_central-economy_a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june_778144.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/geoffrey-hosking-159654_central-economy_a-confidential-report-delivered-in-june_778144.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of…” — Geoffrey Hosking", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-hosking/#person", "name": "Geoffrey Hosking", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-hosking/", "image": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b060/author-geoffrey-hosking-239351.jpg", "description": "British historian... | Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College, London. 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