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Didn't the Soviets try not having any prices at first?
IIRC, that failed miserably and swiftly, so they started copying the prices from neighboring market economies. That let them gradually descend into poverty, rather than just rapidly collapse.
I remember there being some Soviet quote from Stalin or some other leader about how they would ultimately have to allow at least one small market economy to exist, just so they could use the price information. Weird admission.
Yes, the Bolsheviks tried it at first, until Lenin came to some senses (not many, just some).
Actually, it was Lenin and his New Economic Policy (NEP) of 1921. Where he freed up the markets to cause the economy to stabilize. Mises did a great hatchet job on socialism and the pricing impossibility in command economies called the economic calculation problem in one of his books and Hayek finished the job in his Pretense of Knowledge speech.
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