Abstract

This second part of the study turns from the course of the Šik Reform to the form it was intended to take. Drawing on the Action Programme of 1968, draft legislation on socialist enterprises and contemporary theoretical documents, it reconstructs the projected model of enterprise autonomy, workers’ councils and the receding role of directive planning. It then follows the gradual curtailment of these designs after August 1968 and the political rejection of the reform by early 1970.

Keywords

  • Šik Reform
  • economic planning
  • socialist economy
  • Czechoslovakia
  • 1968
  • workers’ councils
  • enterprise autonomy

About the author

Ing. Štěpán Turčín

Faculty of Economics, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9788-393X

Štěpán Turčín (born in Jičín) graduated from the Prague University of Economics and Business, where he specialized in Economic Policy (as the primary area of Master’s degree studies) and Modern Economic History. His research focuses primarily on national economic policy in Czechoslovakia during the second half of the 20th century. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economics.

How to cite

TURČÍN, Štěpán. The Course of the Šik Reform and Its Possible Final Form – Part II. Global Insights & Research Network [online]. 2026, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 89–106. ISSN 3029-8318. Available from: https://girn.uk/2-2026/sik-reform-possible-final-form-part-ii/

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