Soviet History, 1917-53

This work presents eleven studies in the field of Russian/Soviet economic and social history, which have been specially commissioned as a tribute to Professor R.W. Davies. Each chapter highlights a particular area of controversy, and illuminates the process of policy formation in this critical period of Soviet development. Together they provide an overview of the period 1917-1953.

Inhalt
Frontispiece: R.W. Davies - List of Tables - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Big Business and the State in Russia, 1915-1918: the Engineering Lobby; P.Gatrell - The Making of a Moderate Bolshevik: an Introduction to L.B. Kamenev's Political Biography; C.Merridale - The Soviet State, Civil Society and Moscow Politics: Stability and Order in Early NEP, 1921-24; R.Sakwa - Decision Making on the Ural-Siberian Method; Y.Taniuchi - Stalin, the Politburo and Rail Transport Policy; E.A.Rees - A Stalinist Victim of Stalinism: 'Sergo' Ordzhonikidze; F.Benvenuti - The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-38; O.Khlevnyuk - 'Small' Facts in Big Files about the kolkhozy in 1940; M.Lewin - The Moscow Crisis of October 1941; J.Barber - Soviet National Accounting for World War II: an Inside View; M.Harrison - Why Were the Faulty Foundations Never Repaired?; H.Hunter