By Marshall I. Goldman
December 15, 2024
The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum (1980) provides an analysis of the relevance of the Soviet planning system to oil production levels: why it is that planning has been the source of so many petroleum industry problems, and the nature of the measures that are being taken to overcome them. It looks at ...
By Simon Bergstrand, Rigas Doganis
December 15, 2024
The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping. Using new data sources and drawing on discussions with Soviet shipping managers, the book provides a valuable insight into the workings of the Soviet merchant fleet. It sets out to analyse ...
By Constantine Krypton
December 15, 2024
The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North. While the primary focus is on economic, strategic and material grounds, considerable attention is devoted to the ...
By W.P. Coates, Zelda K. Coates
December 15, 2024
The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.S.S.R. (1934) contains a summary of the achievements of the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan and the provisions of the Second Five-Year Plan. As Herbert Morrison says in his introduction, the volume was ‘vetted’ by the Russian authorities and...
By David Lane
December 15, 2024
The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union – where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed. It then considers the ...
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By Abram Bergson, Herbert S. Levine
December 15, 2024
The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR’s economy. It looks at the Soviet economy’s growth process at an advanced stage of development, and assesses how it would evolve in the period ahead. Various growth plans had made large advances to the state-planned ...
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By Peter Wiles
December 15, 2024
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko....
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By Allan Rodgers
December 15, 2024
The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East. The region is explored in all its geographical and economic complexity. Chapters on the state of its development under Gorbachev (and his programme of investment) are supplemented by examinations of ...
By Various authors
December 15, 2024
The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia....
By Various authors
December 15, 2024
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure. It is a rare insight into the ...
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, ...