Guns and Rubles : The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State

by Edited by Mark Harrison

• ISBN13: 9780300125245
• ISBN10: 0300125240
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2008-08-19
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

For this book a distinguished team of economists and historiansR. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrisonscoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume's contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin's dictatorship, military and economic planning, and the industrial organization of the Soviet economy. Previously unknown details about Stalin's command system come to light, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private interests. The authors show that defense was at the core of Stalin's system of rule; single-minded management of the defense sector helped him keep his grip on power.

Author Biography

Mark Harrison is professor of economics, University of Warwick; honorary senior fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European studies, University of Birmingham; and distinguished visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University. He lives in Coventry, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Technical Terms, and Conventions	p. xxi
Note on References	p. xxv
The Dictator and Defense	p. 1
Before Stalinism: The Early 1920s	p. 31
Hierarchies and Markets: The Defense Industry Under Stalin	p. 50
Planning the Supply of Weapons: The 1930s	p. 78
Planning for Mobilization: The 1930s	p. 118
The Soviet Market for Weapons	p. 156
The Market for Labor in the 1930s: The Aircraft Industry	p. 180
The Market for Inventions: Experimental Aircraft Engines	p. 210
Secrecy	p. 230
Afterword	p. 255
Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 263
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