Could the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently? In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists,...

Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s. This major case study treats the paradox of the energy crisis as an essential part of larger economic problems of the...

Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political reforms, it raises intriguing and important questions: Are Gorbachev's ideas different from the Kosygin-Brezhnev reform of 1965 that...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- I. NATIONAL INCOME / Bergson, Abram -- II. LABOR FORCE / Eason, Warren W. -- III. CAPITAL STOCK / Kaplan, Norman M. -- IV. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION / Powell, Raymond P. -- V. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION / Johnson, D. Gale --...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- MAP, CHARTS, AND TABLES -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One. PRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT -- Production -- The Cost-Price Structure and Subsidization -- The Rate of Investment -- Part Two. PROBLEMS OF SPECIALIZATION AND SCALE -- The Scale of...