The administrative-command system (russian: Административно-командная система, Administrativno-komandnaya sistema), also known as the command-administrative system, is the system of management of an
economy
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of a
state
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characterized by the rigid
centralization of
economic planning and distribution of goods, based on the
state ownership
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of the
means of production
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and carried out by the governmental and
communist party
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bureaucracies ("
nomenklatura") in the absence of a
market economy
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.
The term is used to describe the