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The USSR is one of the world's largest economies yet it is difficult to obtain clear and accurate data on its economic performance and its problems. This is partly due to the secrecy that has governed many of its actions and partly because there have been inconsistencies in collecting, collating and publishing the material which has emerged. This volume sets out to provide those interested in contemporary Soviet society with a consistent series of data over a time period from 1945 to the end of the 1980s, for a number of areas including population, industry, agriculture, education and foreign trade. While much of the data comes from official Soviet statistics, material from other sources is used to complement these when appropriate.
Appendix (p. 69-744) contains numerous studies and reports on the Soviet economy.
The inside story of the political collpase of the Soviet Union is far better understood than the course of economic and social disintegration. In order to capture the story, the editors compiled a list of questions which they addressed to former top Soviet officials and economic and other policy advisors (both Soviet and foreign) who were privy not only to data on the functioning of the Soviet economy but also to the internal policy debate during the 1980s. This volume assembles the Informants' analyses of key issues and the turning points, and weaves them into a compelling history of systemic collapse. Among the topics investigated are: economic policies in the 1980s; the standard of living: the reliability of Soviet statistics; Gosplan's projections for the economy to the year 2000; was the arms race starving the civilian economy? the role of ideology in supporting the functioning of an economic system; the party's participating in economic management; the influence of foreign advisors; the struggle over a transition program; the functioning and collapse of the supply system, the CMEA, and the foreign trade system.
Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.
Compilation of statistical tables on the USSR economy for the period from 1917 to 1970 - includes production statistics, agriculture statistics, trade statistics, etc., and comprises data excerpted from russian-language official publications. Bibliography pp. 145 to 147.
Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a record of what happened, and it is also an analysis of the failure of Soviet economics as a concept.