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A detailed account of Belarus’s economic development under the Soviets is contained in my earlier publications.1 It follows from that account that despite the ingrained systemic flaws of the Soviet economic model, Belarus was by and large a Soviet success story. A country of dismal workshops and unproductive wetlands in the beginning of the 20th century, 70 years later Belarus was dominated by large-scale industry and vastly modernized agriculture. In the 1980s, more than half of the industrial personnel of Belarus worked for enterprises with over 500 employees. Most of the large-scale processing and assembly operations were located in Minsk and the eastern part of the republic.
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Ioffe, G. (2014). Belarusian Economy. In: Reassessing Lukashenka. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436757_2
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