The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev

by Barber, John; Harrison, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780333727638
• ISBN10: 0333727630
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Author Biography

John Barber is Fellow and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Mark Harrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
List of figures	ix
Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Notes on the contributors	xiv
Glossary and abbreviations	xvi
Part I Overview
The structure and development of the defence-industry complex	3	(30)
John Barber
Mark Harrison
Nikolai Simonov
Boris Starkov
Part II The formative phase
The `war scare' of 1927 and the birth of the defence-industry complex	33	(14)
Nikolai Simonov
The Red Army and economic planning, 1925--40	47	(23)
Lennart Samuelson
Defence spending and defence industry in the 1930s	70	(29)
R. W. Davies
Mark Harrison
Part III The war and the postwar period
Wartime mobilisation: a German comparison	99	(19)
Mark Harrison
New postwar branches (1): rocketry	118	(32)
Mark Harrison
New postwar branches (2): the nuclear industry	150	(23)
Nikolai Simonov
Part IV The defence-industry complex and society
The defence-industry complex in Leningrad (1): the interwar period	173	(11)
Aleksandr Losik
Aleksandr Shcherba
The defence-industry complex in Liningrad (2): the postwar uranium industry	184	(11)
Nataliia Lebina
Krasnoiarsk-26: a closed city of the defence-industry complex	195	(10)
Viktoriia Glazyrina
Part V Regulation and control
Mobpodgotovka: mobilisation planning in interwar industry	205	(18)
Nikolai Simonov
Voenpriemka: prices, costs, and quality assurance in interwar defence industry	223	(23)
Mark Harrison
Nikolai Simonov
The security organs and the defence-industry complex	246	(23)
Boris Starkov
References	269	(7)
Index	276