Gossnab


Gossnab of USSR, State Supplies of the USSR was active from 1948 to 1953, and 1965 to 1991. It was the state committee for material technical supply in the Soviet Union. It was charged with the primary responsibility for the allocation of producer goods to enterprises, a critical state function in the absence of markets.
Gossnab was one of more than twenty state committees under the Council of Ministers, the administrative arm of the Soviet government, along with other economic organs such as Gosplan and Gosbank. Created amid a series of economic reforms implemented under Premier Alexei Kosygin in the mid-1960s, Gossnab coordinated the allocation of resources not handled by Gosplan. Gossnab had mixed success in creating a wholesale trade system, based on direct contracts between suppliers and users.

Narkomprod

Originally founded in 1917 as the People's Commissariat for Food Supplies was the People's Commissariat of the Russian SFSR in charge of food supplies and industrial goods. The first Commissar was Ivan Teodorovich.
There were several subsidiary organisations:
The Narkomprod was responsible in June 1918 for the attempted organisation of 'committees of the poor' in provincial villages. This was an attempt to encourage a 'class war' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the peasants were not resentful of 'kulaks' as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests.

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