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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939

:	R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk, Stephen G. Wheatcroft
:	The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9781137362384
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This book concludesThe 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.

R. W. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Russian Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Mark Harrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK, a Research Associate of Warwick's ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for European, Russian, Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham.

Oleg Khlevniuk is Professor of History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation, and Leading Research Fellow of the HSE International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences.

Stephe G. Wheatcroft is Professor of History at Deakin University, Australia, and a Professorial Fellow and Associate of the University of Melbourne.

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	Preface	6
	Contents	11
	About the Authors	14
	List of Tables	16
	Chapter 1 The Repressions of 1937–1938 and the Soviet Economy	25
	1 The Nomenklatura Purge	26
	2 The Mass Purge	36
	3 The Effect of the Repressions on the Economy	43
	Chapter 2 The Political Context of Economic Change: 1937 to the Spring of 1939	46
	1 The Advance of German and Japanese Aggression	46
	2 The Revised Political Ideology	55
	3 Politics and Society in 1937 and 1938	60
	Chapter 3 The Economic Slowdown of 1937	69
	1 The 1937 Plan: The Shift Back to More Balanced Growth	69
	2 Plans and Purges	77
	3 The First Half of 1937	88
	4 The Second Half of 1937	96
	Chapter 4 1937 in Retrospect	101
	1 Capital Investment	101
	2 The Gulag Economy	105
	3 Industrial Production	110
	4 The Defence Industries	115
	5 Labour and Labour Productivity	122
	6 Agriculture: Plans and Policies	123
	7 Agriculture: Operations and Outcomes	131
	8 Internal Trade and Consumption	140
	9 Foreign Trade	148
	Chapter 5 The Soviet Population and the Censuses of 1937 and 1939	151
	1 The Much-Delayed Census of 1937	151
	2 Carrying Out the 1937 Census	155
	3 The 1937 Census Outcomes Suppressed	158
	4 1938 and Preparations for the 1939 Census	165
	5 Popov’s Warning	167
	6 Outcomes of the 1939 Census	170
	7 The Two Censuses in Retrospect	175
	Chapter 6 The Partial Recovery of the Economy in 1938	178
	1 The Temporary Collapse and Revival of Planning	178
	2 The Gulag Economy	189
	3 Industrial Growth	196
	4 The Defence Industries	205
	5 The Railway Crisis	214
	6 Internal Trade	216
	7 Foreign Trade	218
	Chapter 7 Agriculture in 1938 and 1939	224
	1 The Agricultural Officials	225
	2 The Private Sector After 1937	230
	3 Plans and Policies, 1938	237
	4 Operations and Outcomes, 1938	243
	5 Plans and Policies, 1939	249
	6 Operations and Outcomes, 1939	253
	Chapter 8 The Drive for Growth and the Eighteenth Party Congress, January–March 1939	259
	1 The Third Five-Year Plan	261
	2 Current Economic Planning	275
	3 Managing the Industrial Worker	277
	4 The Eighteenth Party Congress	286
	Chapter 9 The Economy in 1939: Further Moves to a War Economy	293
	1 The Growth of Industry	294
	2 The Defence Industries	298
	3 The GULAG Economy	306
	4 Internal Trade and Consumption	314
	5 The Soviet-German Accord	320
	Chapter 10 The Soviet Economy: The Late 1930s in Historical Perspective	331
	1 Forced Industrialisation	334
	2 The Measurement of Economic Performance	340
	3 Militarisation: A War Economy in Peacetime	347
	4 The Emergence of the Soviet Union as a World Power	351
	5 The Reformability of the Soviet Economy	356
	6 The Nature of Soviet Economic Development	359
	Afterword: The History of the Soviet Union	364
	Appendix A: All-Union People’s Commissariats and Other Agencies of the USSR, 1937–1939	366
	Appendix B: Tables	370
	Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Technical Terms	422
	Bibliography	428
	Index of Names	441
	Index of Subjects	447