Author : Soviet Union. T︠S︡entralʹnoe upravlenie narodnokhozi︠a︡ĭstvennogo ucheta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521261258
Newly translated materials from the years of mass collectivisation and the launching of the Soviet industrialisation drive.
Author : Paul R. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521533676
This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.
Author : Paul Gregory
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0817928162
The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953—the height of the Stalinist regime—this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Most of the authors have worked with these archives since they were opened.
Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719034923
This bibliographical guide contains 10,000 references to the economic and social history of 30 European countries during the period 1700-1939. More than 3000 periodicals have been consulted to obtain references, as well as books, edited collections and conference proceedings. The information is listed in categories such as industry, agriculture, finance, migration, labour conditions, urban communities and organizations. Full publication details are included, so that references may be located easily.
Author : Ashwani Saith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1136284842
First published in 1986. This collection of eight essays begins with a piece that constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. In the poor developing country launching upon both simultaneously, the agrarian question bifurcates into two dichotomous sets of issues.
Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349099333
A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s. Questions posed include, was the tsarist economy successful, but destroyed by World War I? And was the breakdown of the mixed economy of the 1920s an arbitary political act?
Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521457705
Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.
Author : Derek Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1349248487
Exploring such general issues as the differing roles of the Communist Party and the State in ruling the former Soviet Union and the exercise of political power in the Stalin regime, this first western study of the chief Soviet government body during the 1930s traces the history of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) whilst Molotov was chairman. Sovnarkom co-ordinated the work of the commissariats (later to be called ministries) and supervised the implementation of the policies of collectivization and industrialization. It was intimately connected with the Great Purge as the heads of the secret police were commissars. Using recently available archival sources, the working of the institution and changes in its structure and membership are examined, as is the political history of the institution, including the parts played by Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, Kaganovich and other major politicians who were members during the critical decade in this development of Stalinism.
Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1989-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 134914942X
In 1929-30, the 'spinal year' of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power. This book, the third part of The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, re-examines the breakdown of the mixed economy. In those days of heroism and enthusiasm, hunger and repression, crucial Soviet economic and political institutions were established, and are only now being effectively challenged by Gorbachev's revolution. While complementing the previous two volumes of this author's work, the book is designed to be read independently. It sheds new light on a dramatic moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.
Author : J. Barber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1999-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230378854
The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialised in military production powerfully influenced the course of the twentieth century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defence.
