Theœ Industrialisation Of Soviet Russia

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002379290

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The Socialist Offensive by Robert William Davies Pdf

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0333261712

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 1: Socialist Offensive by R. W. Davies Pdf

By the summer of 1929 Soviet industrialisation was well under way, but agriculture was in a profound crisis: in 1928 and 1929 grain to feed the towns was wrested from the peasants by force, and the twenty-five million individual peasant households lost the stimulus to extend or even to maintain their production. In the autumn of 1929 the Soviet Politburo, led by Stalin, launched its desperate effort to win the battle for agriculture by forcible collectivisation and by large-scale mechanisation. Simultaneously hundreds of thousands of kulaks (richer peasants) and recalcitrant peasants were expelled from their villages. This book tells the story of these events, as momentous in their impact on Russian history at the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, and of the temporary retreat from collectivisation in the spring of 1930 in the face of peasant resistance. The crisis in the Communist Party which resulted from this upheaval, in the months preceding the XVI party congress in June 1930, is described in detail for the first time.

Author : R. Davies,S. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035111389

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

While the capitalist world was experiencing The Crash and the beginnings of the Depression, a massive investment program initiated the Soviet Union's transformation from a peasant country to an industrial power. Here is a nearly day-by-day account of the establishment of political institutions only now being challenged by Gorbachev's reforms. Complements the two previous volumes, but is designed to stand on its own. Well-printed (in China) on acidic paper. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349059355

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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. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1076149286

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

Author : Robert William Davies,Mark Harrison,S. G. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052145770X

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The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 by Robert William Davies,Mark Harrison,S. G. Wheatcroft Pdf

Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.

Author : R. W. Davies,Mark Harrison,Oleg Khlevniuk,Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400832552

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Farm to Factory by Robert C. Allen Pdf

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history. Moreover, by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation. Although the Russian economy began to develop in the late nineteenth century based on wheat exports, modern economic growth proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to successful Five Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during the 1930s and raised living standards, especially for the many peasants who moved to cities. A sudden drop in fertility due to the education of women and their employment outside the home also facilitated growth. While highlighting the previously underemphasized achievements of Soviet planning, Farm to Factory also shows, through methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst excesses--such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture--did little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original thought pursued wasteful investments.

Author : William G. Rosenberg,Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 025320772X

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Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization by William G. Rosenberg,Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

"This is a fine book, impressive in both quantity and quality." --Journal of Economic History "The collection stands out as one of the most useful volumes currently available on the Soviet Union in the 1930s." --Labour History Review "Altogether, this book succeeds in opening up the social history of the Soviet Union in the era of planning for those students and scholars who are ready to advance beyond the old stereotypes." --ILWCH The pathbreaking essays assembled here examine the complex pattern of relationships between the first Five Year Plans and the society and culture of Stalinist Russia. Discussion focuses on urbanization, social mobility, questions of social identity and the cultural constructions of the industrialization drive, as well as work organization, management relations, and the underlying processes of industrial organization.

Author : M. E. Falkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153075889

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The Industrialisation of Russia 1700-1914 by M. E. Falkus Pdf

Author : R W Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349102556

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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 2: 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. They were planned as giant, fully socialist enterprises, modelled on the state-owned factories, and employing wage labour. By the summer of 1930 the collective-farm compromise had been introduced. Collective farmers were permitted to retain a personal household plot and their own animals; and a free market continued side by side with state planning. This system continued throughout the Stalin period important features of it remain in the Soviet Union today. The emergence of the collective farm in 1929-30, discussed in detail in the present volume, was thus a crucial stage in the formation of the Soviet system.