The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia #3

by Robert William Davies

In 1929-30, the 'spinal year' of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power. This book, the third part of The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, re-examines the breakdown of the mixed economy. In those days of heroism and enthusiasm, hunger and repression, crucial Soviet economic and political institutions were established, and are only now being effectively challenged by Gorbachev's revolution. While complementing the previous two volumes of this author's work, the book is designed to be read independently. It sheds new light on a dramatic moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.

Genres: History, Russia, Economics, Soviet History

600 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 1989

About the author

Robert William Davies was a British historian, writer and professor of Soviet Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Commerce and Social Science from the University of Birmingham.