Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Soviet Development in World-Historical Perspective -- PART ONE The Economy before Stalin -- CHAPTER TWO Economic Growth before 1917 -- CHAPTER THREE The Development Problem in the 1920s -- CHAPTER FOUR...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface to English Translation -- CHAPTER 1. QUANTITY PLANNING: BALANCES AND NORMS -- CHAPTER 2. THE PLACE OF FINANCIAL PLANNING IN THE SOVIET PLANNING SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 3. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL GUIDANCE AND DIVISION OF ECONOMIC...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Tables. Figures -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. PLANNING AND POLICY -- 2. SOVIET PLANNING REFORMS -- 3. TOWARD A NEW GROWTH MODEL -- 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS IN THE USSR -- PART TWO / LEVELS OF OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. THE...

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,...