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

Example Sentences

After two decades of working at the plant, he was named its director and in the following years rose swiftly through the ranks of Soviet hierarchy to get senior posts at the ministry of heavy industries and the Gosplan state planning agency, before being named the head of the economics department of the Communist Party’s Central Committee.

From Seattle Times

She has heaped rhetorical abuse on the Fed over the years, likening it as recently as May to Gosplan, the notorious Soviet economic planning agency.

From Washington Post

Think of the Big Ten as a combination of talent agency CAA and Gosplan, the Soviet Planning Committee.

From Slate

Mr. Karimov joined Gosplan, the central Soviet economic planning agency, in 1966 and married for the second time in 1967.

From New York Times

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