An Economic History of the U.S.S.R.

Fülszöveg

published by Penguin Books
There are fewstories so dramatic, and so full ot iessons and warnings, particularly for developing countries, as the economic history of Russia in the present century. She was already launched into a period of rapid transformation when this was interrupted by war and civil war: by 1921 the economy and society were in a state of collapse, with peasants rioting and sailors in revolt.
Professor Nove's concise and objective study of the growing-pains of a giant, traces the economy of the U.S.S.R. from 'war communism' to the New Economic Policy of the early twenties, and thence, under Stalin's coercion, to the.Soviet 'Great Leap Forward' of five-year plans, collectivization and Stakhanovism. His account of these years of terror reveal not only the author's close acquaintance with the Soviet sources, but alsó his abiiity to divine the historical facts through a mist of propaganda.
After a brief survey of the distorted economy of the Second World War and of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

published by Penguin Books
There are fewstories so dramatic, and so full ot iessons and warnings, particularly for developing countries, as the economic history of Russia in the present century. She was already launched into a period of rapid transformation when this was interrupted by war and civil war: by 1921 the economy and society were in a state of collapse, with peasants rioting and sailors in revolt.
Professor Nove's concise and objective study of the growing-pains of a giant, traces the economy of the U.S.S.R. from 'war communism' to the New Economic Policy of the early twenties, and thence, under Stalin's coercion, to the.Soviet 'Great Leap Forward' of five-year plans, collectivization and Stakhanovism. His account of these years of terror reveal not only the author's close acquaintance with the Soviet sources, but alsó his abiiity to divine the historical facts through a mist of propaganda.
After a brief survey of the distorted economy of the Second World War and of the years of recovery, Professor Nove describes the more liberal era of Malenkov and Krushchev, with their well-intentioned but often hare-brained schemes to expand the economy. He concludes with a notably fair-minded assessment of Russian achievement.
'The best available economic history of the Soviet Union. And not merely the best available, but one that is very good indeed' - New Society
The cover, designed by Germano Facetti, shows a detail of a five-year-plan poster of 1931, in a priváté collection Vissza