The time of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War which followed was a period of virtual economic collapse. Production and distribution of necessary commodities were severely tested as factories were shuttered and major cities such as Petrograd were depopulated, with urban residents returning to the countryside to claim a place in land redistribution and in order to avoid the unemployment, lack of food, and lack of fuel which had become endemic. By 1919 hyperinflation had emerged, further pushing the struggling economic system of Soviet Russia towards total collapse.
Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. Gsoplan Garage was designed by Konstatin Melnikov in 1932-1934.
published: 18 Sep 2009
Izabella Kaminska: Uberisation of the Economy: Gosplan 2.0.
SERIES 2.2: POST-CAPITALISM
7 MAR - IZABELLA KAMNISKA (FINANCIAL TIMES): UBERISATION OF THE ECONOMY: GOSPLAN 2.0
The sharing economy isn't what you think it is. Nor is the platform economy. Furthermore, we've been here before. Last time it was under the guise of 'red plenty'. Could we be sleep walking our way into a technocratic dictatorship? The first signs to suggest we are are already bubbling over: from safe harbour disagreements to Uber boycots.
In this presentation I will explain why the most important factor the techies in Silicon Valley are forgetting is that there is no such thing as free, that cross subsidisation doesn't create an ecosystem, and that things are always relative and subject to diminishing returns. The digital business models of today are simply obscuring fixe...
published: 19 Apr 2016
God's Plan
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God's Plan · Drake
Scorpion
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Released on: 2018-06-29
Producer: Cardo
Producer: Yung Exclusive
Producer: Boi-1da
Producer, Additional Producer: Noah "40" Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Keyboards: Noah Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Noel Cadastre
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Quaz
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Robbie Meza
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Noel "Gadget" Campbell
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Harley Arsenault
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Greg Moffet
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Gosplan - Boccadasse
#gosplan #boccadasse #architecture
a video by Anna Positano | Samuele Wurtz
assistant Valeria Piras
starring Kamela Tosca
.
info: [email protected]
2017
published: 05 Jan 2022
Dr. S. Frederick Starr: From Gosplan to Parliament
At a policy dinner on Russia I hosted, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Founder Dr. S. Frederick Starr discussed the history of Gosplan in the former Soviet Union and how Vladimar Putin adopted Gosplan into parliament, once it was established under his presidency.
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Gosplan · OVC
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Gosplan Architects - Platform Italy 2020 - 8.10.2020 Adi Design Museum
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1st October 1928: The USSR introduces the first five-year plan under Joseph Stalin
The plan set a series of economic goals to be achieved between 1929 and 1934, with the intention of rapidly industrialising the USSR in case of war with the West. Based on Stalin’s policy of Socialism in One Country, the five-year plan called for a complete change in the culture of the Soviet Union that affected agriculture just as much as industry.
A vital ingredient in being able to fulfil the industrial goals of the five-year plan was an increase in agricultural productivity. Improved agricultural output would release peasants and farm labourers from the land and allow them to become industrial workers. The first five-year plan is therefore probably most famous for the introduction of the policy of collectivisation, where hundreds of peasants were put together to work on enormous farms...
Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. Gsoplan Garage was designed by Konstatin Melnikov i...
Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. Gsoplan Garage was designed by Konstatin Melnikov in 1932-1934.
Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. Gsoplan Garage was designed by Konstatin Melnikov in 1932-1934.
SERIES 2.2: POST-CAPITALISM
7 MAR - IZABELLA KAMNISKA (FINANCIAL TIMES): UBERISATION OF THE ECONOMY: GOSPLAN 2.0
The sharing economy isn't what you think it i...
SERIES 2.2: POST-CAPITALISM
7 MAR - IZABELLA KAMNISKA (FINANCIAL TIMES): UBERISATION OF THE ECONOMY: GOSPLAN 2.0
The sharing economy isn't what you think it is. Nor is the platform economy. Furthermore, we've been here before. Last time it was under the guise of 'red plenty'. Could we be sleep walking our way into a technocratic dictatorship? The first signs to suggest we are are already bubbling over: from safe harbour disagreements to Uber boycots.
In this presentation I will explain why the most important factor the techies in Silicon Valley are forgetting is that there is no such thing as free, that cross subsidisation doesn't create an ecosystem, and that things are always relative and subject to diminishing returns. The digital business models of today are simply obscuring fixed costs vs marginal costs, whilst encouraging predation. Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also encouraging underinvestment in the real economy, precarious systemic interconnectedness and many other vulnerabilities. They're also kicking the problem of the tragedy of the commons down the road.
Once the world wakes up to the costs of the digital liberty illusion, the hangover could be considerable. Ultimately this all comes down to the theory of Anacyclosis, best summed up as what has before will happen again, and that real innovation is really, really hard. Most of the time what passes off as innovation today amounts to nothing more than redrawing the lines in the sand and a zero-sum game. The underlying sandbox hasn't arguably been busted through since the industrial revolution itself.
Bio: Izabella Kaminska is a writer, commentator and blogger for the Financial Times and its blog FT Alphaville. She's been a journalist for Reuters, CNBC and the Warsaw Business Journal. She's interested in connecting the dots between all the stuff that nobody really thinks is related. How does a computer processor cause the 2008 banking crisis? What does the price of oil have to do with Switzerland? What's the London super sewer got to do with faster payments? How is the art world a precursor to bitcoin? What does an Amazon parcel delivery service got to do with Blythe Masters? She spent some time messing about in the Post Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia when she was straight out of school. Academically she holds an undergraduate in Ancient History from UCL, a master's in journalism from what was then LCP and an art foundation course from Chelsea College of art.
SERIES 2.2: POST-CAPITALISM
7 MAR - IZABELLA KAMNISKA (FINANCIAL TIMES): UBERISATION OF THE ECONOMY: GOSPLAN 2.0
The sharing economy isn't what you think it is. Nor is the platform economy. Furthermore, we've been here before. Last time it was under the guise of 'red plenty'. Could we be sleep walking our way into a technocratic dictatorship? The first signs to suggest we are are already bubbling over: from safe harbour disagreements to Uber boycots.
In this presentation I will explain why the most important factor the techies in Silicon Valley are forgetting is that there is no such thing as free, that cross subsidisation doesn't create an ecosystem, and that things are always relative and subject to diminishing returns. The digital business models of today are simply obscuring fixed costs vs marginal costs, whilst encouraging predation. Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also encouraging underinvestment in the real economy, precarious systemic interconnectedness and many other vulnerabilities. They're also kicking the problem of the tragedy of the commons down the road.
Once the world wakes up to the costs of the digital liberty illusion, the hangover could be considerable. Ultimately this all comes down to the theory of Anacyclosis, best summed up as what has before will happen again, and that real innovation is really, really hard. Most of the time what passes off as innovation today amounts to nothing more than redrawing the lines in the sand and a zero-sum game. The underlying sandbox hasn't arguably been busted through since the industrial revolution itself.
Bio: Izabella Kaminska is a writer, commentator and blogger for the Financial Times and its blog FT Alphaville. She's been a journalist for Reuters, CNBC and the Warsaw Business Journal. She's interested in connecting the dots between all the stuff that nobody really thinks is related. How does a computer processor cause the 2008 banking crisis? What does the price of oil have to do with Switzerland? What's the London super sewer got to do with faster payments? How is the art world a precursor to bitcoin? What does an Amazon parcel delivery service got to do with Blythe Masters? She spent some time messing about in the Post Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia when she was straight out of school. Academically she holds an undergraduate in Ancient History from UCL, a master's in journalism from what was then LCP and an art foundation course from Chelsea College of art.
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Scorpion
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Produc...
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Scorpion
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Producer: Boi-1da
Producer, Additional Producer: Noah "40" Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Keyboards: Noah Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Noel Cadastre
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Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Robbie Meza
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Noel "Gadget" Campbell
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Harley Arsenault
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Greg Moffet
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Ronald Moonoo
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Associated Performer, Drums: Daveon Jackson
Associated Performer, Flute: Tim Gomringer
Associated Performer, Flute: Kevin Gomringer
Composer Lyricist: Matthew Samuels
Composer Lyricist: Aubrey Graham
Composer Lyricist: N. Shebib
Composer Lyricist: Ronald LaTour
Composer Lyricist: Daveon Jackson
Composer Lyricist: Brock Korsan
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Released on: 2018-06-29
Producer: Cardo
Producer: Yung Exclusive
Producer: Boi-1da
Producer, Additional Producer: Noah "40" Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Keyboards: Noah Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Noel Cadastre
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Quaz
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Robbie Meza
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Noel "Gadget" Campbell
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Harley Arsenault
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Greg Moffet
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Ronald Moonoo
Associated Performer, Vocals: Drake
Associated Performer, Drums: Ronald LaTour
Associated Performer, Drums: Daveon Jackson
Associated Performer, Flute: Tim Gomringer
Associated Performer, Flute: Kevin Gomringer
Composer Lyricist: Matthew Samuels
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Composer Lyricist: N. Shebib
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At a policy dinner on Russia I hosted, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Founder Dr. S. Frederick Starr discussed the history of Gosplan in the former Soviet Un...
At a policy dinner on Russia I hosted, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Founder Dr. S. Frederick Starr discussed the history of Gosplan in the former Soviet Union and how Vladimar Putin adopted Gosplan into parliament, once it was established under his presidency.
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At a policy dinner on Russia I hosted, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Founder Dr. S. Frederick Starr discussed the history of Gosplan in the former Soviet Union and how Vladimar Putin adopted Gosplan into parliament, once it was established under his presidency.
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Gosplan · OVC
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Gosplan · OVC
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Gosplan · OVC
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The plan set a series of economic goals to be achieved between 1929 and 1934, with the intention of rapidly industrialising the USSR in case of war with the Wes...
The plan set a series of economic goals to be achieved between 1929 and 1934, with the intention of rapidly industrialising the USSR in case of war with the West. Based on Stalin’s policy of Socialism in One Country, the five-year plan called for a complete change in the culture of the Soviet Union that affected agriculture just as much as industry.
A vital ingredient in being able to fulfil the industrial goals of the five-year plan was an increase in agricultural productivity. Improved agricultural output would release peasants and farm labourers from the land and allow them to become industrial workers. The first five-year plan is therefore probably most famous for the introduction of the policy of collectivisation, where hundreds of peasants were put together to work on enormous farms that covered thousands of acres.
The dramatic increase in food output per peasant as a result of mechanisation on collectivised farms freed up former agricultural workers to move to the new factories instead. This led to the number of industrial workers almost doubling between 1928 and the end of the plan in 1932. However, significant opposition to the process of collectivisation meant that overall productivity remained low in many areas and caused widespread famine in the countryside as Party officials seized food for the cities yet left the agricultural workers with nothing.
In the factories, however, production soared. Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world superpower.
The plan set a series of economic goals to be achieved between 1929 and 1934, with the intention of rapidly industrialising the USSR in case of war with the West. Based on Stalin’s policy of Socialism in One Country, the five-year plan called for a complete change in the culture of the Soviet Union that affected agriculture just as much as industry.
A vital ingredient in being able to fulfil the industrial goals of the five-year plan was an increase in agricultural productivity. Improved agricultural output would release peasants and farm labourers from the land and allow them to become industrial workers. The first five-year plan is therefore probably most famous for the introduction of the policy of collectivisation, where hundreds of peasants were put together to work on enormous farms that covered thousands of acres.
The dramatic increase in food output per peasant as a result of mechanisation on collectivised farms freed up former agricultural workers to move to the new factories instead. This led to the number of industrial workers almost doubling between 1928 and the end of the plan in 1932. However, significant opposition to the process of collectivisation meant that overall productivity remained low in many areas and caused widespread famine in the countryside as Party officials seized food for the cities yet left the agricultural workers with nothing.
In the factories, however, production soared. Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world superpower.
Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. Gsoplan Garage was designed by Konstatin Melnikov in 1932-1934.
SERIES 2.2: POST-CAPITALISM
7 MAR - IZABELLA KAMNISKA (FINANCIAL TIMES): UBERISATION OF THE ECONOMY: GOSPLAN 2.0
The sharing economy isn't what you think it is. Nor is the platform economy. Furthermore, we've been here before. Last time it was under the guise of 'red plenty'. Could we be sleep walking our way into a technocratic dictatorship? The first signs to suggest we are are already bubbling over: from safe harbour disagreements to Uber boycots.
In this presentation I will explain why the most important factor the techies in Silicon Valley are forgetting is that there is no such thing as free, that cross subsidisation doesn't create an ecosystem, and that things are always relative and subject to diminishing returns. The digital business models of today are simply obscuring fixed costs vs marginal costs, whilst encouraging predation. Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also encouraging underinvestment in the real economy, precarious systemic interconnectedness and many other vulnerabilities. They're also kicking the problem of the tragedy of the commons down the road.
Once the world wakes up to the costs of the digital liberty illusion, the hangover could be considerable. Ultimately this all comes down to the theory of Anacyclosis, best summed up as what has before will happen again, and that real innovation is really, really hard. Most of the time what passes off as innovation today amounts to nothing more than redrawing the lines in the sand and a zero-sum game. The underlying sandbox hasn't arguably been busted through since the industrial revolution itself.
Bio: Izabella Kaminska is a writer, commentator and blogger for the Financial Times and its blog FT Alphaville. She's been a journalist for Reuters, CNBC and the Warsaw Business Journal. She's interested in connecting the dots between all the stuff that nobody really thinks is related. How does a computer processor cause the 2008 banking crisis? What does the price of oil have to do with Switzerland? What's the London super sewer got to do with faster payments? How is the art world a precursor to bitcoin? What does an Amazon parcel delivery service got to do with Blythe Masters? She spent some time messing about in the Post Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia when she was straight out of school. Academically she holds an undergraduate in Ancient History from UCL, a master's in journalism from what was then LCP and an art foundation course from Chelsea College of art.
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God's Plan · Drake
Scorpion
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Released on: 2018-06-29
Producer: Cardo
Producer: Yung Exclusive
Producer: Boi-1da
Producer, Additional Producer: Noah "40" Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Associated Performer, Keyboards: Noah Shebib
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Noel Cadastre
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Quaz
Studio Personnel, Asst. Recording Engineer: Robbie Meza
Studio Personnel, Mixer: Noel "Gadget" Campbell
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Harley Arsenault
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Greg Moffet
Studio Personnel, Assistant Mixer: Ronald Moonoo
Associated Performer, Vocals: Drake
Associated Performer, Drums: Ronald LaTour
Associated Performer, Drums: Daveon Jackson
Associated Performer, Flute: Tim Gomringer
Associated Performer, Flute: Kevin Gomringer
Composer Lyricist: Matthew Samuels
Composer Lyricist: Aubrey Graham
Composer Lyricist: N. Shebib
Composer Lyricist: Ronald LaTour
Composer Lyricist: Daveon Jackson
Composer Lyricist: Brock Korsan
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At a policy dinner on Russia I hosted, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Founder Dr. S. Frederick Starr discussed the history of Gosplan in the former Soviet Union and how Vladimar Putin adopted Gosplan into parliament, once it was established under his presidency.
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Gosplan · OVC
Escalator One
℗ 2015 TRAUM Schallplatten
Released on: 2015-06-26
Music Publisher: Cathode Ray Dreams
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The plan set a series of economic goals to be achieved between 1929 and 1934, with the intention of rapidly industrialising the USSR in case of war with the West. Based on Stalin’s policy of Socialism in One Country, the five-year plan called for a complete change in the culture of the Soviet Union that affected agriculture just as much as industry.
A vital ingredient in being able to fulfil the industrial goals of the five-year plan was an increase in agricultural productivity. Improved agricultural output would release peasants and farm labourers from the land and allow them to become industrial workers. The first five-year plan is therefore probably most famous for the introduction of the policy of collectivisation, where hundreds of peasants were put together to work on enormous farms that covered thousands of acres.
The dramatic increase in food output per peasant as a result of mechanisation on collectivised farms freed up former agricultural workers to move to the new factories instead. This led to the number of industrial workers almost doubling between 1928 and the end of the plan in 1932. However, significant opposition to the process of collectivisation meant that overall productivity remained low in many areas and caused widespread famine in the countryside as Party officials seized food for the cities yet left the agricultural workers with nothing.
In the factories, however, production soared. Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world superpower.
The time of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War which followed was a period of virtual economic collapse. Production and distribution of necessary commodities were severely tested as factories were shuttered and major cities such as Petrograd were depopulated, with urban residents returning to the countryside to claim a place in land redistribution and in order to avoid the unemployment, lack of food, and lack of fuel which had become endemic. By 1919 hyperinflation had emerged, further pushing the struggling economic system of Soviet Russia towards total collapse.