Overview
- Concludes the seven volume series The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia
- Provides an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1937 and 1939
- Explores the industrialisation of Soviet Russia from the Great Terror to the Hitler-Stalin pact and the outbreak of World War II
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This series, and this volume in particular, is essential reading for scholars with an academic interest in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, particularly economic historians interested in planning, the buildup to the Second World War, and Soviet statistics.” (Gregg, EH Net, July, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Stephen G. Wheatcroft is Professor of History at Deakin University, Australia, and a Professorial Fellow and Associate of the University of Melbourne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937–1939
Authors: R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk, Stephen G. Wheatcroft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36238-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36237-7Published: 26 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36238-4Published: 11 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 439
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Economic History, Modern History, History of Military, History of Modern Europe