Here’s a popular article by Yuri Malstev, an economist who defected from the U.S.S.R.:
https://mises.org/daily/3105
It has a good bibliography at the end.
Also, take a look at the books by Paul Craig Roberts: Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown, Inside the Soviet Economy.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/books/alienation-and-the-soviet-economy-the-collapse-of-the-socialist-era/