Soviet industrialization: A remarkable success?

Slavic Review

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 841-849

  Ellman, Michael ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1520423     Document Type: Review

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34. Allen, Farm to Factory, 153.
35. For data on world economic growth, see A. Maddison, The World Economy: A Millenial Perspective (Paris, 2001). This data clearly shows the importance for the conclusions reached of both the period selected and the countries chosen for comparison.
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38. For an analysis of the Soviet economy in World War II, see M. Harrison, Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945 (Cambridge, Eng., 1996);
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40. Khanin, Ekonomicheskaia istoriia Rossii, 41-61.