Gosplan

American  

[gos-plahn] / gɒsˈplɑn /

noun

1. the official planning organization, which drew up projects embracing trade and industry, agriculture, education, and public health.

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Gosplan British  

/ ˈɡɒsˌplæn /

noun

1. the state planning commission of the former Soviet Union or any of its constituent republics: it was responsible for coordination and development of the economy, social services, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Gosplan

< Russian Gosplán, for Gosudárstvennaya plánovaya komíssiya State Planning Commission

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Gosplan

In the late 1960s, he married into a well-connected family, became a protege of powerful Communist Party leaders and began advancing at the powerful state planning agency Gosplan.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2016

As his first Cabinet appointment, he named Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist Party member and a former head of the Soviet State Planning Committee, Gosplan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gosplan, the state planning committee of the U.S.S.R., reproduces many of its official documents on Xerox machines.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the summer study of these revealed that in sectors of the Plan in which there had been costly breakdowns the greater-than-expected total cost was cited by the Gosplan as evidence of "over-fulfillment."

From Time Magazine Archive

To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive