Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, acronyms, technical terms, and conventions -- Note on references -- The dictator and defense / Mark Harrison -- Before Stalinism : the early 1920s / Andrei Sokolov -- Hierarchies and markets : the defense industry under Stalin / Mark Harrison and...

This paper is a draft of the concluding chapter of The industrialisation of Soviet Russia, vol. 7: The Soviet economy and the approach of war, 1937–1939, in preparation for publication by Palgrave Macmillan. We consider the development of the Soviet economy over the period of the series, that...