Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989

AvR. W. Davies,Robert William Davies,Glyn Ed. Davies,R W Davies

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Planned as a number of independent volumes this work covers the years 1929-1937, the crucial period of the first two five-year plans, which saw the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into an industrial power. An examination of Soviet industrialization is seen as important in increasing an understanding of why the Soviet system took its present form; and as a case study of state-managed industrialization, should illuminate the economic problems of developing countries and questions of state planning generally. This book, the third part of the trilogy, re-examines the breakdown of the Soviet socialist market economy at the end of the 1920s and assesses its replacement by Stalinist centralized planning. The author explains how 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 this 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, by drawing on Soviet a

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Utgivningsdatum1989-05-04
Mått140 x 216 x 39 mm
Vikt888 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor601
Upplaga1998
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333311028

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R.W. DAVIES is Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, of which he was previously Director. In the course of his research, he has paid many visits to Russia to study in Moscow and St Petersburg libraries and in the state and former party archives. His publications include The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era, The Socialist Offensive 1929-1930, The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1933. He is at present preparing, jointly with S G Wheatcroft, a study of the Soviet Famine of 1932-3 based on recently-released Russian and Ukranian archives. He collaborated with E H Carr on vols 9 and 10 of A History of Soviet Russia.

List of Tables Preface Additional Preface The Industrial Economy in the Mid-1920s The Triumph of Rapid Industrialisation, October 1927-September 1929 The Social Context, 1929-30 The Intellectual Framework, 1929-30 Economic Doctrines in Transition, 1929-30 Plans for a Heroic Age, 1929-30 Progress and Turmoil in the Industrial Economy, October 1929- May 1930 The XVI Party Congress, June 26-July 13, 1930 The Industrial Economy in Disorder, June-September 1930 The Economic Year 1929-30 in Retrospect The Special Quarter: October-December 1930 The Defence Industries, 1919-30 Conclusions Tables Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations Used in Text Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications Used in Footnotes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

'R.W. Davies lays bare the chaotic reality behind the images and illuminates both the successes of the new centralized economy and its colossal dislocations ... Davies is the foremost economic historian of Stalin's Soviet Union ... Though no historical work is ever 'definitive', Davies' three volumes on the industrialization of Soviet Russia are foundation stones for any further studies.' - Ronald Suny, Business History Review 'Future generations of university students may well follow courses on comparative Russian/Soviet perestroika studies from Peter the Great to Gorbachev. If so, they will find The Soviet Economy in Turmoil an essential text.' - David Dyker, Slavonic and East European Review