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.

• 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.

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