Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev

by R. W. Davies

• ISBN13: 9780521622608
• ISBN10: 0521622603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union negotiated the first stages of modern industrialisation and then, after the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies, emerged as one of the two world superpowers. This was also the first attempt to construct a planned socialist order. These developments resulted in great economic achievements at great human cost. Using the results of recent Russian and Western research, Professor Davies discusses the inherent faults and strengths of the system, and pays particular attention to the major controversies. Was the Russian Revolution doomed to failure from the outset? Could the mixed economy of the 1920s have led to a democratic socialist economy? What was the influence of Soviet economic development on the rest of the world?

Table of Contents

List of maps	vi	(1)
List of figures	vi	(1)
List of tables	vii	(1)
Acknowledgements	viii	(1)
Main dates in Russian and Soviet history	ix	(2)
Glossary	xi
1 Introduction	1	(5)
2 The Tsarist economy	6	(11)
3 War Communism, 1918-1920	17	(6)
4 The New Economic Policy of the 1920s	23	(15)
5 Measuring Soviet economic growth	38	(5)
6 Soviet economic development, 1928-1965	43	(30)
The pre-war industrialisation drive, 1928-1941	43	(15)
The Second World War, 1941-1945	58	(6)
Post-war recovery, 1945-1950	64	(3)
Post-war expansion, 1950-1965	67	(6)
7 The Soviet economic system, 1928-1965	73	(6)
8 Soviet industrialisation in perspective	79	(4)
Further reading	83	(2)
References	85	(7)
Index	92