Russian Economic Development Since the Revolution

Maurice Dobb

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136323843
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

The story of the economic development of the Soviet Union provided the first case in history of the establishment of a socialist economy and was therefore of great interest for economists and economic historians of the twentieth century. At the same time it affords a unique example of the transformation of a country into an industrial nation at an unprecedented pace and under the guidance of a national economic plan. This book examines these changes from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1927.

INDEX

• ABSENTEEISM 95
• Accounting 166 seq., 336
• Accumulation Chapter 10
  • — socialist 259–267, 269, 272, 300–13, 353, 378–9, 392, 415, 429
  • — private 258, 320, 351, 352–3
  • — primitive 260–2, 409–10
• Administration, — personnel 71, 123–5, 165, 189, 197, 385
  • — industrial 98 et seq., 249, 331–2, 384–91
  • — problems of 112–27, 133 seq., 159, 188, 197 et seq., 384 seq.
• Agriculture 341–51, 353–9
  • — land distribution 20–1
  • — size of farms 20–1, 341–4, 411–6, 421–3
  • — and industry 212 seq., 221 seq., Chapters 8 and 9 and Excursus, 320–6, 419 seq.
  • — production 223–4, 323–4
  • — methods 341–2, 348–50, 356–9. see also Grain, Peasantry
• Agricultural Tax 164–5, 188, 283–4, 315, 320, 343-349, 354, 424
• American methods 3, 56, 332. see also Rationalisation
• Amortisat...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• PREFACE
• I. THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND
• II. THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS
• III. THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC DECLINE
• IV. THE PERIOD OF “WAR COMMUNISM”
• V. THE TRANSITION TO THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
• EXCURSUS TO CHAPTER FIVE: ON MONEY AND ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING
• VI. THE BEGINNING OF RECONSTRUCTION
• VII. THE NEW FORM OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION
• VIII. THE “SCISSORS” CRISIS OF 1923
• IX. THE CLOSING OF THE “SCISSORS”
• EXCURSUS TO CHAPTERS EIGHT AND NINE: ON TRADE BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND PEASANT AGRICULTURE VIEWED AS A SPECIAL CASE OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN “NON-COMPETING GROUPS”
• X. THE PROBLEM OF FIXED CAPITAL
• XI. TOWN AND VILLAGE
• XII. ECONOMIC PROSPECTS
• A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
• A LIST OF SOURCES
• APPENDIX TO SECOND EDITION
• INDEX