Davies R.W., Harrison Mark, Khlevniuk Oleg, Wheatcroft Stephen. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia. Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 439 p. — ISBN10: 1137362375; ISBN13: 978-1137362377This 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.The Repressions of 1937–1938 and the Soviet EconomyThe Nomenklatura Purge
The Mass Purge
The Effect of the Repressions on the EconomyThe Political Context of Economic Change: 1937 to the Spring of 1939The Advance of German and Japanese Aggression
The Revised Political Ideology
Politics and Society in 1937 and 1938The Economic Slowdown of 1937The 1937 Plan: The Shift Back to More Balanced Growth
Plans and Purges
The First Half of 1937
The Second Half of 19371937 in RetrospectCapital Investment
The GULAG Economy
Industrial Production
The Defence Industries
Labour and Labour Productivity
Agriculture: Plans and Policies
Agriculture: Operations and Outcomes
Internal Trade and Consumption
Foreign TradeThe Soviet Population and the Censuses of 1937 and 1939The Much-Delayed Census of 1937
Carrying Out the 1937 Census
The 1937 Census Outcomes Suppressed
1938 and Preparations for the 1939 Census
Popov’s Warning
Outcomes of the 1939 Census
The Two Censuses in RetrospectThe Partial Recovery of the Economy in 1938The Temporary Collapse and Revival of Planning
The GULAG Economy
Industrial Growth
The Defence Industries
The Railway Crisis
Internal Trade
Foreign TradeAgriculture in 1938 and 1939The Agricultural Officials
The Private Sector After 1937
Plans and Policies, 1938
Operations and Outcomes, 1938
Plans and Policies, 1939
Operations and Outcomes, 1939The Drive for Growth and the Eighteenth Party Congress, January–March 1939The Third Five-Year Plan
Current Economic Planning
Managing the Industrial Worker
The Eighteenth Party CongressThe Economy in 1939: Further Moves to a War EconomyThe Growth of Industry
The Defence Industries
The GULAG Economy
Internal Trade and Consumption
The Soviet-German AccordThe Soviet Economy: The Late 1930s in Historical PerspectiveForced Industrialisation
The Measurement of Economic Performance
Militarisation: A War Economy in Peacetime
The Emergence of the Soviet Union as a World Power
The Reformability of the Soviet Economy
The Nature of Soviet Economic DevelopmentAfterword: The History of the Soviet UnionAll-Union People’s Commissariats and Other Agencies of the USSR, 1937–1939
TablesAbbreviations, Acronyms, and Technical Terms