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...

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