The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress

The Soviet Economy, 1934-1936
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-333-58685-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 7428 g

Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Khlevnyuk, Oleg

Wheatcroft, Stephen G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Industrielle Organisation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The XVII Party Congress and the Second Five-Year Plan 2. 1934: A Year of Relaxation: The Political Background 3. The Economy in 1934 4 1935: The Growing Threat of War 5. The 1935 Plan and the Abolition Of Bread Rationing 6. 'Continuous Advance': January-September 1935 7. 'Advancing To Abundance', September – December 1935 8. 1935 In Retrospect 9. The Ambitious 1936 Plan 10. The Political Context of Economic Change, 1936 11. 1936: 'The Stakhanovite Year' 12. The Successful Outcome Of 1936 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

R. W. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Soviet Economic Studies, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK – of which he was the foundation director. He is the author of many books and articles on Soviet history, including Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khruschev, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, and the previous five volumes in this series.

Oleg V. Khlevniuk is Senior Research Fellow at State Archive of the Russian Federation, and Leading Research Fellow at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is the author of The History of the GULAG: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (2004), and Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (2008).

Stephen Wheatcroft is Professor in Soviet History at Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan, and a specialist on Soviet agriculture and population. He is the editor of Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History (2002) and joint author with R. W. Davies of The Years of Hunger.