Download or read book Foundations of a planned economy 1926 1929 3 v in 6 written by Edward Hallett Carr and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundations of a Planned Economy 1926 1929 written by Edward Hallett Carr and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decision making in the Stalinist Command Economy 1932 37 written by E. A. Rees and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-04-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of economic policy-making in the USSR during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1937). The work examines the process by which the plan was formulated and implemented, through a series of detailed case-studies, based on archival material, examining the role of the Politburo, the Soviet government, Gosplan and the main economic commissariats. It examines the relationship between the conflicts within the economic commissariats and the unleashing of the Great Purges 1936-38. The work aims towards a new conceptualisation of the Stalinist state.
Download or read book The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev written by J. Barber and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialised in military production powerfully influenced the course of the twentieth century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defence.
Download or read book A History of Soviet Russia Foundations of a planned economy 1926 1929 written by Edward Hallett Carr and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Cold Warriors written by Vladimir Kontorovich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War. If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy, why did experts fail to tell us when it mattered? Vladimir Kontorovich shows how Western economists came up with strained non-military interpretations of several important aspects of the Soviet economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. Such "civilianization" suggests that the neglect of the military sector was not forced on scholars of the Soviet economy by secrecy; it was their choice. The explanation of this choice in Reluctant Cold Warriors raises many questions about the internal workings of economic Sovietology and its intellectual and political background. Are peripheral academic fields mimicking the agenda of the discipline's mainstream more likely to produce faulty scholarship? Did the search for the essence of socialism distract researchers from the actual Soviet economy? Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book answers these questions in a way that has broad relevance for national security uses of social science today.
Download or read book Moscow Politics and The Rise of Stalin written by Catherine Merridale and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-10-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the development of the Communist Party in Moscow between 1925 and 1932 and its ultimate assumption of absolute power. This volume examines in detail the political changes in Moscow, including the crisis over collectivization, and the organization strategy of the Party in Moscow.
Download or read book The Origins of the Stalinist Political System written by Graeme Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from 1917 to 1941.
Download or read book Russia s Last Capitalists written by Alan M. Ball and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-09-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.
Download or read book Karl Radek on China written by Alexander V. Pantsov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Radek on China sheds light on the views of one of the major Soviet China specialists, activists of the Russian revolutionary movement, and leaders of the Trotskyist Opposition Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885-1939).
Download or read book Incentives and Economic Systems written by Stefan Hedlund and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Incentives and Economic Systems is a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium at Frostavallen, Sweden on how institutions attempt to guide individual behaviour by manipulating the social and economic incentive system. These economic and social aspects of incentives determine ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ behaviour by individuals and organizations across various economic systems. The essays in the volume deal with various aspects of the incentive problems and the various manifestations of such problems, along with moral and ethical issues. The essays will be an enlightening read for students of economics, policymaking and international politics.
Download or read book Molotov and Soviet Government written by Derek Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring such general issues as the differing roles of the Communist Party and the State in ruling the former Soviet Union and the exercise of political power in the Stalin regime, this first western study of the chief Soviet government body during the 1930s traces the history of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) whilst Molotov was chairman. Sovnarkom co-ordinated the work of the commissariats (later to be called ministries) and supervised the implementation of the policies of collectivization and industrialization. It was intimately connected with the Great Purge as the heads of the secret police were commissars. Using recently available archival sources, the working of the institution and changes in its structure and membership are examined, as is the political history of the institution, including the parts played by Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, Kaganovich and other major politicians who were members during the critical decade in this development of Stalinism.
Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe1933 39 written by J. Haslam and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-10-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men of Influence written by Sabine Dullin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabine Dullin has researched the history of Soviet diplomacy from 1930-1939 through a variety of now-accessible diplomatic political, administrative, and social archives. She had added to this mix the memories and testimonies of diplomatic personnel. In particular, her book sheds light on the role of Maxime Litvinov.
Download or read book Gorbachev s export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe written by Helen Hardman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987–89, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews and textual analysis identify a joint initiative among these fraternal communist parties to perpetuate the one-party system. For this purpose, fraternal parties were expected to follow the example of the CPSU in convening the national party conference, an all-party meeting on a similar scale to the five-yearly congress, and yet mysteriously, one which was barely described in the Party Statutes and rarely convoked. Gorbachev made use of CEE dependence on the Soviet Union for energy supplies to ensure that at least some fraternal parties followed his line. This book will be of interest to those studying the transition process in CEE, democratisation, comparative politics more generally and students of research methods.
Download or read book Stalin written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.
Download or read book INSIDE THE ENIGMA written by Michael Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century has been fundamentally shaped by changes in Russia, where disaster in the First World War was followed by the fall of the Tsar. Nicholas II's replacement first by Kerensky's liberal government then by the Bolsheviks, and the subsequent Civil War and foreign intervention, led to the erection of a system of state tyranny previously unthought of. The Bolshevik regime, with its ideological hatred of other regimes, was a threat to the west where developments in Russia were watched with both horror and fascination. Britain's information about this series of extraordinary events, and about what might be about to happen next, was largely dependent on the small number of British officials, mainly diplomats, posted in Russia. Inside the Enigma gives us a view from an unusual and privileged angle of the history of Russia between the turn of the century and the beginning of the Second World War. The discomforts and privations suffered by British officials were matched by their frustration. Impenetrable Tsarist court intrigue was replaced by a wall of disinformation and suspicion after the Bolshevik seizure of power. Nevertheless, what they saw and reported makes remarkable reading.
