The Industrialisation Of Soviet Russia Volume 7 The Soviet Economy And The Approach Of War 1937 1939

Author : R. W. Davies,Mark Harrison,Oleg Khlevniuk,Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137362384

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937–1939 by R. W. Davies,Mark Harrison,Oleg Khlevniuk,Stephen G. Wheatcroft Pdf

This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone: beginning from the Great Terror, it ends with the Hitler-Stalin pact and the outbreak of World War II in Europe. During that time, Soviet society was repeatedly mobilised against internal and external enemies, and the economy provided one of the main arenas for the struggle. This was expressed in waves of repression, intensive rearmament, the increased regimentation of the workforce and the widespread use of forced labour.

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349149421

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930 by R. W. Davies Pdf

In 1929-30, the 'spinal year' of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power. This book, the third part of The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, re-examines the breakdown of the mixed economy. In those days of heroism and enthusiasm, hunger and repression, crucial Soviet economic and political institutions were established, and are only now being effectively challenged by Gorbachev's revolution. While complementing the previous two volumes of this author's work, the book is designed to be read independently. It sheds new light on a dramatic moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.

Author : R. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137362575

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress by R. Davies Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred J. Rieber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300264616

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Stalin as Warlord by Alfred J. Rieber Pdf

An authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader--showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society "A superb new history. . . . Rieber analyses with clarity the impact of the war."--Wendy Slater, Times Literary Supplement The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader, arguing that his policies were profoundly paradoxical. In preparation for the war, Stalin mobilized the whole of Soviet society in pursuit of his military goals and intensified the centralization of his power. Yet at the same time, his use of terror weakened the forces vital to the defense of the country. In his efforts to rebuild the country after the devastating losses and destruction, he suppressed groups that had contributed immeasurably to victory. His steady, ruthless leadership cultivated a legacy that was to burden the Soviet Union and Russia to the present day.

Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000955446

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Stalin and War, 1918-1953 by David R. Shearer Pdf

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and foreign threat. Discussion focuses on the crisis years 1928-1932, 1936-1939, the Great Fatherland War, and the last war crisis period, 1947-1953. Violent repressions under Stalin were cyclical. They peaked and ebbed but, in each case, they were linked to Stalin’s expectation of war and invasion, to his perceived need for urgent internal mobilization, and to intense foreign policy activity. Stalin’s behavior in each of these perceived war crises followed a pattern established during the dictator's experience as a military commander in the Russian revolutionary wars, and especially during the Polish war in 1919 and 1920. Together, these chapters trace a consistent and interconnected logic of war and repression throughout Stalin’s political life. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers.

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037476168

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933 by R. W. Davies Pdf

The profound economic crisis of 1931-33 undermined the process of industrialisation and the stability of the regime. In spite of feverish efforts to achieve the over ambitious first five-year plan, the great industrial projects lagged far behind schedule. These were years of inflation, economic disorder and of terrible famine in 1933. In response to the crisis, policies and systems changed significantly. Greater realism prevailed: more moderate plans, reduced investment, strict monetary controls, and more emphasis on economic incentives and the role of the market. The reforms failed to prevent the terrible famine of 1933, in which millions of peasants died. But the last months of 1933 saw the first signs of an industrial boom, the outcome of the huge investments of previous years. Using the previously secret archives of the Politburo and the Council of People's Commissars, the author shows how during these formative years the economic system acquired the shape which it retained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1076149286

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˜Theœ Industrialisation of Soviet Russia by R. W. Davies Pdf

Author : Crispin Brooks
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250033

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Beyond the Pale by Crispin Brooks Pdf

The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in a region barely known in this context

Author : R W Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349045242

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The Industrialisation Of Soviet Russia: Volume 2: The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930 by R W Davies Pdf

During the events described in The Socialist Offensive the collective farms achieved a commanding position in the Soviet countryside. The emergence of the collective farm in 1929-30, discussed in the present volume, was a crucial stage in the formation of the Soviet system.

Author : Mark Edele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350153530

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Stalinism at War by Mark Edele Pdf

Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Here, acclaimed scholar Mark Edele explores the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens – Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime – to reveal how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949.

Author : Maurice Dobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136323782

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Soviet Economic Development Since 1917 by Maurice Dobb Pdf

This book follows on from the author’s volume Russian Economic Development and although it encompasses some of the same material it charts the history and progress of the Soviet economy down to the efforts at reconstruction after The Second World War. A new chapter was added which covers the post-war decade from the end of the war to the announcement of the Sixth Year Plan.

Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-31
Category : Industrialization
ISBN : 0333745159

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The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929-1930 by Robert William Davies Pdf

In 1929-30, the spinal year of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power. This text, the third part of The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, re-examines the breakdown of the mixed economy. In those days of heroism and enthusiasm, hunger and repression, crucial Soviet economic and political institutions were established, and are only now being effectively challenged by Gorbachev's revolution. While complementing the previous two volumes of this author's work, the book is designed to be read independently. It sheds new light on a moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.

Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195316995

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The Great Terror by Robert Conquest Pdf

"The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Provides accounts of on everything form the three great 'Moscow Trials' to methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. On the fortieth anniversary of thew first edition, it is remarkable how many of the most disturbing conclusions have born up under the light of fresh evidence." --

Author : N. Bisley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230000544

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The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse by N. Bisley Pdf

Soviet efforts to end the Cold War were intended to help revitalize the USSR. Instead, Nick Bisley argues, they contributed crucially to its collapse. Using historical-sociological theory, The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse shows that international confrontation had been an important element of Soviet rule and that the retreat from this confrontational posture weakened institutional-functional aspects of the state. This played a vital role in making the USSR vulnerable to the forces of economic crisis, elite fragmentation and nationalism which ultimately caused its collapse.

Author : R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230273979

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The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft Pdf

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.