New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. — 296 p. The result of the combined experiences of the two trips to Russia, together with that derived from numerous correspondents in Russia, both natives and Englishmen long settled in that country, are embodied in this book. My endeavour has been to avoid a mass of merely statistical tables and summaries of Consular and other official...
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001. — 265 p. Tsarist Russia's commercial class is today receiving serious attention from both Russian and non-Russian historians. This book is a contribution to that literature. Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914 examines the relation between the entrepreneurial world, especially business and banking, and the cultural...
New York: Routledge, 2012. — 476 p. Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the erosion of the old Stalinist controls, economists in the Soviet Union themselves became very interested in the history of their profession, not least in order to find authentic voices that might...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 0801427231; ISBN13: 978-0801427237 The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the...
Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1991. — 432 p. — ISBN-10: 0801499194; ISBN-13: 978-0801499197 A 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?...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0521451523; ISBN13: 978-0521451529 This book is ideal for students studying a key period of Soviet economic history. It brings together and makes available the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialization, using a vast amount of primary evidence, and the methods of quantitative economic analysis....
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014. — 920 p. — (Historical Materialism (Book 1)) — ISBN: 978-90-04-24521-1; ISBN13: 978-1608463732. Historians generally recognize E.A. Preobrazhensky as the most famous Soviet economist of the 1920s. English-language readers know him best as author of The New Economics and co-author (with N.I. Bukharin ) of The ABC of Communism. The documents in this...
Transl. by Antonina W. Bouis; Foreword by Anders Aslund. — Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012. — 568 p. — ISBN10: 0262017415; ISBN13: 978-0262017411. It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government...
New York: Harpercollins College Div, 1994. — 336 p. — (The Harpercollins Series in Economics) — ISBN10: 0673469719; ISBN13: 978-0673469717. 5th edition This text has been updated to focus on the radical changes which the former Soviet Union has recenly experienced - its reorganization and its transition from a planned to market economy, examining the history of the Soviet Union...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 0521032687; ISBN13: 978-0521032681 — (Soviet Interview Project) Inefficient, overstaffed and indifferent to the public's needs, the Soviet economic bureaucracy operates today much as it did in the 1930s. In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy , Paul R. Gregory takes an inside look at how this system...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 504 p. — ISBN-10: 1487521650; ISBN-13: 978-1487521653 Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state fiscal power that was also underway across Western Europe and North America. States...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 463 p. Purpose of the Book. Territorial Transformation. Structure of the Book. Analytical Examples Using the Results of the Book and Related Data. Remaining Tasks. State Statistics in the Russian Empire. State Statistics in the Soviet Union. Early Period of the Soviet Union (1917 to the 1920s). Stalin Period (the s to the First Half of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 243 p. This book examines the little-known phenomenon of blat — the use of informal contacts and personal networks to obtain goods and services under the rationing that pervaded Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva analyzes the historical, socioeconomic, and cultural aspects of blat, and explores its implications for post-Soviet Russia. The...
Oxford: Clarendon press, 1922. — 248 p. Publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History. The author of the present publication on the economic condition of Russia during and after the World War has for a number of years carefully studied the economic development of his country and treated it in various investigations in Russian...
2nd edition. — University of Toronto, 1925. — 643 p. A deep inquiry of economic development in Muscovy Rus and Russian empire with historic comment about economic school, views, forces that pushed Russian economy forward and reasons why it failed.
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 272 p. From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes. Thomas C. Owen discovers a remarkable history of thwarted effort and lost opportunity. He explores the impact of bureaucratic restrictions and reveals the entrepreneurial capabilities...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. — 336 p. My purpose in presenting these results of my study of the Russian experiment in the economics of Communism is not to show that this experiment has reduced Russia to a state of utter economic disorganization and ruin. This fact is readily apparent from the general economic infonnation about Soviet Russia and is willingly admitted...
London: P. S. King & Son, LTD., 1918. — 484 p. During the visit of a Russian Mission to London in the early days of the war, a conversation took place in the ofhce of Mr. Arthur King, that sanctum of exact and up-to-date information on pohtical and economic questions, between him and the editor of the present work. It was recognized that there were in England a large number of...
Lexington: Lexington Books, 1977. — 194 p. — ISBN: 0-669-01143-6 The “Received” Western View of Soviet Foreign Trade Soviet Theories of Foreign Trade Statistical Evidence on the “Received” View Organizational and Operational Peculiarities of the Soviet Foreign Trading System Prices Consequences Soviet Foreign Trade Administration and Pricing in the Seventies and Beyond How Well...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 186 p. — ISBN10: 0739145630; ISBN13: 978-0739145630. 'The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.' ―Josef Stalin (1943), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946, Random House, N.Y., 1975, p. 277 The United States shipped...
London: Leonard Parsons, 1925. — 150 p. The present work first appeared in the Russian language in the beginning of 1924, when the Soviet currency reform was still in process of being carried through. In the preparation of the English edition the original text has been completely revised and all details which would not be likely to prove of interest to English readers have been...
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