Administrative methods of economic management and economic reforms of the period 1921–1991

The article presents an analysis of the development of public economic management in Russia, and in the form of several stages. Analyzing each of the stages, the author identifies administrative and economic methods and shows their positive and negative sides. When preparing the article, the historical and legal method, methods of synthesis and analysis, empirical, dialectical, logical and other methods of cognition were used. In conclusion the author’s conclusions are formulated.