Table of Contents

List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Major events in Russian and Soviet economic development; 1. Changing economic systems: an overview R. W. Davies; 2. The crooked mirror of Soviet economic statistics S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies; 3. National income Mark Harrison; 4. Population S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies; 5. Employment and industrial labour J. D. Barber and R. W. Davies; 6. Agriculture S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies; 7. Industry R. W. Davies; 8. Transport J. N. Westwood; 9. Technology and the transformation of the Soviet economy Robert Lewis; 10. Foreign economic relations Robert Lewis; 11. The First World War and War Communism, 1914–1920 Peter Gatrell; 12. The Second World War Mark Harrison; Tables; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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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.

About the Author

Mark Harrison writes about the history and economics of Russia, conflict, defence and security. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

Reviews

'This book can be warmly recommended to all institutions which organise courses on Soviet economic history or comparative politics.' Tauno Tiusanen, Europe-Asia Studies