The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933
Author: R. W. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349059358

The profound economic crisis of 1931-33 undermined the process of industrialisation and the stability of the regime. In spite of feverish efforts to achieve the over ambitious first five-year plan, the great industrial projects lagged far behind schedule. These were years of inflation, economic disorder and of terrible famine in 1933. In response to the crisis, policies and systems changed significantly. Greater realism prevailed: more moderate plans, reduced investment, strict monetary controls, and more emphasis on economic incentives and the role of the market. The reforms failed to prevent the terrible famine of 1933, in which millions of peasants died. But the last months of 1933 saw the first signs of an industrial boom, the outcome of the huge investments of previous years. Using the previously secret archives of the Politburo and the Council of People's Commissars, the author shows how during these formative years the economic system acquired the shape which it retained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937–1939

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937–1939
Author: R. W. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2018-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137362383

This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone: beginning from the Great Terror, it ends with the Hitler-Stalin pact and the outbreak of World War II in Europe. During that time, Soviet society was repeatedly mobilised against internal and external enemies, and the economy provided one of the main arenas for the struggle. This was expressed in waves of repression, intensive rearmament, the increased regimentation of the workforce and the widespread use of forced labour.

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933
Author: R. W. Davies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1996-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The profound economic crisis of 1931-33 undermined the process of industrialisation and the stability of the regime. In spite of feverish efforts to achieve the over ambitious first five-year plan, the great industrial projects lagged far behind schedule. These were years of inflation, economic disorder and of terrible famine in 1933. In response to the crisis, policies and systems changed significantly. Greater realism prevailed: more moderate plans, reduced investment, strict monetary controls, and more emphasis on economic incentives and the role of the market. The reforms failed to prevent the terrible famine of 1933, in which millions of peasants died. But the last months of 1933 saw the first signs of an industrial boom, the outcome of the huge investments of previous years. Using the previously secret archives of the Politburo and the Council of People's Commissars, the author shows how during these formative years the economic system acquired the shape which it retained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress
Author: R. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 113736257X

Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.

The Economics Of Coercion And Conflict

The Economics Of Coercion And Conflict
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814583359

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare. They address defining events and institutions of the world in the twentieth century: economic consequences of repression and violence, the outcomes of two world wars, and the rise and fall of communism. They cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, combining a broad sweep with close attention to measurement and narrative detail; offering insights into these issues from economics, history, political science, and statistics; and demonstrating in action the value of a multi-disciplinary approach.The author was one of the first economists to leverage the opening of former Soviet archives. He has led international projects that reinvented the quantitative economics of the two world wars and contributed significantly to historical Soviet studies. In 2012, he shared with Andrei Markevich the Russian National Prize for Applied Economics, which was awarded in recognition of their research.

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933
Author: R. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230273971

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.

Guns and Rubles

Guns and Rubles
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0300151705

Previously unknow details about Stalin's command system come to light in this book, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private sectors. Focusing on various aspects of the defence industry, this volume uncovers information on the inner workings of Stalin's dictatorship.

Molotov: A Biography

Molotov: A Biography
Author: D. Watson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2005-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230514529

This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's struggle with the oppositions, collectivization, industrialization, the Terror, the Great Patriotic War, the beginnings of the Cold War, and in the Khrushchev era.

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

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930
Author: R. W. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1989-05-05
Genre: 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.

The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev

The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev
Author: J. Barber
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 1999-12-08
Genre: 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.