Conceived as an introduction to the field for undergraduate students and the general reader, this collection of essays by thirteen of the leading British specialists on Soviet affairs provides a comprehensive primer to social life in the USSR.

The Soviet Union

History

Robert William Davies

Russia

Allen& Unwin

Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The present volume and its successor, written jointly by E. H. Carr and R. W. Davies, open the final instalment of E. H. Carr's  A History of Soviet Russia . They deal with economic affairs, and the central theme is the replacement of the guided market economy of NEP by direct planning, first predominantly in financial, and later also in physical, terms.  The varying fortunes of the struggle between market forces and the aims of the planners are worked out in the spheres of agriculture, industry, management of labour, trade and finance. The volume ends with a study of the build-up of the planning mechanism, culminating in the adoption of the first five-year plan in the spring of 1929.  The decision of January 1930 to collectivize agriculture falls outside the period covered, but the conditions and reasons leading up to it are fully discussed. These were the opening years of a tense period of Soviet history, in which extraordinarily rapid expansion of industry was accompanied by increasingly ruthless economic pressures and political repressions

A History of Soviet Russia: 4 Foundations of a PlannedEconomy,1926-1929: Volume 1: Part 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Edward Hallett Carr

Politics & Government

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 text, 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 moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.

Industrialisation of Soviet Russia (v. 3)

Business & Money

Economics

Conversion of image history and perestroika (1990) ISBN: 4000020420 [Japanese Import]

Iwanami Shoten

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