Davies R.W. (ed.) From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR

Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1991. — 432 p. — ISBN-10: 0801499194; ISBN-13: 978-0801499197A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s. Questions posed include, was the tsarist economy successful, but destroyed by World War I? And was the breakdown of the mixed economy of the 1920s an arbitary political act?Introduction: From Tsarism to NEP. R. W. DaviesQuantitative comparison by sectors
The economic structures
Processes of industrialisation compared
Two systems in crisis?The social backgroundThe Social Context. Maureen Perrie and R. W. DaviesRuling classes and ruling elites
Society in flux
The working class in transition

Appendix: Estimates of the occupational structure in 1913 and in the mid-1920sSocio-economic Differentiation of the Peasantry. Stephan MerlTheories and evidence
Differentiation of rural households by farm size
Off-farm activities and money income of rural households
ConclusionsUnemployment. J. C. ShapiroBefore 1917: what do we know?
1917-25
Unemployment 1926/27
ConclusionsAgriculture and the economyAgriculture. S. G. WheatcroftIntroduction
Pre-first world war trends and levels
Decline and recovery, 1914-25
Recovery and restructuring, 1926-28
ConclusionsThe Peasantry and Industrialisation. Mark HarrisonThe historical background
The rural food surplus
The transfer of capital and labour
ConclusionsIndustry and the economyThe Industrial Economy. Peter Gatrell and R. W. DaviesNational income and investment
The changing shape of industry
Productivity of labour
Internal trade
The instruments of industrialisation
The Comparative Perspective
ConclusionsThe Textile Industries. Christopher WardOn the eve
Collapse and recovery
OrganisationOther sectorsThe Railways. J. N. Westwood (with the assistance of Holland Hunter, and incorporating contributions by P. J. Ambler, A. Heywood and F. M. Page)Russian imperial railways on the eve of the war 169
The imperial railways at war
Revolution to restoration
Soviet railways in the mid-1920sResearch and Technology. J. M. Cooper and R. A. LewisIntroduction
The pre-revolutionary scene
NEP
High-technology engineering
ConclusionsForeign Trade. M. R. DohanRussian foreign trade and economic growth, 1900-13
The first world war, the revolution and war communism
A comparative summary: 1913 versus 1926/27 and 1927/28Appendix Note: loss of territory and foreign tradeThe national incomeNational Income. Paul R. GregoryThe official Soviet estimates
Potential errors in the official Soviet estimates
The feasible range