By G. Ratner, The Horace Plunkett Foundation
June 14, 2023
Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis. It looks at the significance of farming co-operatives in Soviet agricultural planning and describes the ...
By A. Yugoff
June 14, 2023
Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution. It displayed the contradictions evident in an economy that had been isolated from the world economy while undergoing great changes, and where the government was taking control over all ...
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By L.A. Melentiev
June 14, 2023
Energy Reviews: Unified Gas Supply System of the USSR (1985) explores some important aspects of the development and operation of the unified gas system of the Soviet Union. It pays particular attention to both the basic characteristics of and the long-term trends in its development and shows how ...
By Various
June 14, 2023
Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Economics examines in 22 volumes the establishment, development, growth and collapse of the Soviet economic system. Titles look at the early five-year plans, the control of all aspects of economic life by the State, changes in agriculture, industrialisation, ...
By Colin White
June 14, 2023
Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles – one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention. It highlights not the political ...
By Erich Strauss
June 14, 2023
Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the ...
By Boris Z. Rumer
June 14, 2023
Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow’s economic policies – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia. The Soviet literary weekly Literaturnaia gazeta described Soviet economic policies there as a ‘...
By N. Mikhaylov
June 14, 2023
Soviet Geography (1935) presents a comprehensive account of the economic development of the USSR as it stood at the time. It deals with the main changes in the distribution of the productive forces of the country and discusses their significance. It examines industry, agriculture, material ...
By Bruno Grancelli
June 14, 2023
Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality. It outlines the main characteristics of labor relations during Russia’s three major historical industrialisation drives, and the attitude toward work, entrepreneurs and ...
By David Ingram
June 14, 2023
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev’s boast that by 1970 the USSR’s industrial output would surpass that of the USA. The book analyses the communist record, and ...
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By Michael Ellman, Vladimir Kontorovich
June 14, 2023
The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic. The collapse is looked at from a macroeconomic point of view, both real and financial, as well as from a ...
By Roger Munting
June 14, 2023
The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning. It argues that the Soviet experience demonstrates that remarkable quantitative economic progress can be achieved but at a price which ...