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• Foreword Richard Stone
• Preface by the editors
• Editors' introduction S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies
• 1. The structure and content of the 'materialy'
• 2. The 'materialy' as a source of information on Soviet economic development
• 3. A brief history of the balance of the national economy
• Materialy translated by B. Pearce, S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies
• 4. Introduction S. Minaev
• 5. Articles
• 6. Tables and notes
• Glossary
• Index.
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This book contains a full translation of a major but little-known Soviet work on Soviet national income accounts for a crucial stage in the social and economic transformation of the Soviet economy from 1928 to 1930. These were years of mass collectivisation and the launching of the Soviet industrialisation drive. The USSR was perhaps unique in having a well-developed statistical service able to record the detailed changes in economic relationships that were taking place at this time. The translation is accompanied by three introductory articles which explain the structure and contents of these materials, what new light these materials throw on the development of the Soviet economy in this period and describe the significance of these materials for the history of Soviet statistics and planning. Amongst other questions this evidence casts some doubt on recent attempts to show that Soviet industrialisation resulted in a change in the net flow of goods between industry and agriculture, in favour of agriculture. It also shows that considerable attempts were made by some influential statisticians and planners in the early 1930s to analyse the relationship between different branches and sectors of the economy. In a foreword Professor Sir Richard Stone sets the achievement of the construction of these materials in the context of the history of Western works on national income accounts.
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• Part I. Isolation: 1. Depression Stalinism
• 2. Postwar: the Bretton Woods Cold War
• Part II. Aspiration: 3. Restoration: resuming the relationship with capitalism
• 4. Maelstrom: the decolonization vortex
• Part III. Integration: 5. Conformity and profit: the Soviet economy under American hegemony
• 6. Poor relations: the limits of Soviet economic dysfunction
• Conclusion: Mikoyan's legacy.
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Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy of global economic forces, tracked the same path as other countries in the world, moving from 1930s autarky to the globalizing processes of the postwar period. In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, he questions the very foundations of the Cold War narrative as a contest between superpowers in a bipolar world. Far from an economic force in the world, the Soviets managed only to become dependent providers of energy to the rich world, and second-best partners to the global South.
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• Part I. Isolation: 1. Depression Stalinism
• 2. Postwar: the Bretton Woods Cold War
• Part II. Aspiration: 3. Restoration: resuming the relationship with capitalism
• 4. Maelstrom: the decolonization vortex
• Part III. Integration: 5. Conformity and profit: the Soviet economy under American hegemony
• 6. Poor relations: the limits of Soviet economic dysfunction
• Conclusion: Mikoyan's legacy.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy of global economic forces, tracked the same path as other countries in the world, moving from 1930s autarky to the globalizing processes of the postwar period. In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, he questions the very foundations of the Cold War narrative as a contest between superpowers in a bipolar world. Far from an economic force in the world, the Soviets managed only to become dependent providers of energy to the rich world, and second-best partners to the global South.
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• Part 1 Survival Strategy: The Social-Psychological Impact of the War
• Victory and the Victors
• "What Will Life be Like After the War?" - Expectation vs. Reality
• Hungry Years - Popular Methods During the Famine of 1946-47
• Currency Reform - the View from Above and Below. Part 2 Illusions of Liberalization: The Peasantry and Collective Agriculture - Anti-Kolkhoz Attitudes in the Countryside
• Religion and Politics - the Revival of Religious Feeling
• Popular Political Attitudes, 1945-48
• "Something Has to be Done" - Attitudes Among the Intelligentsia and Independent Thinkers. Part 3 Repressions: "Situation Unchanged" - the Crisis of Post-Victory Expectations
• The Appearance of an Anti-Stalinist Youth Movement
• Mechanisms of Struggle Against Dissent
• A Wave of Repression, 1949-53
• "Who is Guilty?" "What is Wrong?" - the Evolution of Mass Consciousness. Part 4 The Thaw: "Without Stalin" - the Change of Atmosphere
• Renouncing the Gulag
• The Turn to the Individual
• The Decisions About the Cult of Personality and Their Influence on the Society
• Public Opinion and the "Hungarian Syndrome" Instead of a Conclusion - Society, the Regime and Reforms.
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The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This is a sweeping history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw by one of Russia's respected younger historians. Drawing on the resources of newly opened archives as well as the recent outpouring of published diaries and memoirs, Elena Zubkova presents a richly detailed portrayal of the basic conditions of people's lives in Soviet Russia from 1945 to 1957. She brings out the dynamics of postwar popular expectations and the cultural stirrings set in motion by the wartime experience versus the regime's determination to reassert command over territories and populations and the mechanisms of repression. Her interpretation of the period establishes the context for the liberalizing and reformist impulses that surfaced in the post-Stalin succession struggle, characterizing what would be the formative period for a future generation of leaders: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their contemporaries.
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• List of tables
• Preface and acknowledgements
• List of terms and abbreviations
• Introduction: the political imperatives of the postwar recovery
• 1. Rebuilding the workforce: free, slave and indentured labour
• 2. The food crisis of 1946-1947
• 3. Attenuated recovery: the end of rationing, housing and health
• 4. 'Socializing' the next generation: the position of young workers
• 5. Labour discipline and criminal law: the futility of repression
• 6. The industrial enterprise: working conditions, work organization and wage determination
• Conclusion: labour and the 'renormalization' of Stalinist social relations
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.
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• List of tables
• Preface and acknowledgements
• List of terms and abbreviations
• Introduction: the political imperatives of the postwar recovery
• 1. Rebuilding the workforce: free, slave and indentured labour
• 2. The food crisis of 1946-1947
• 3. Attenuated recovery: the end of rationing, housing and health
• 4. 'Socializing' the next generation: the position of young workers
• 5. Labour discipline and criminal law: the futility of repression
• 6. The industrial enterprise: working conditions, work organization and wage determination
• Conclusion: labour and the 'renormalization' of Stalinist social relations
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.
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• List of tables
• Preface and acknowledgements
• List of terms and abbreviations
• Introduction: the political imperatives of the postwar recovery
• 1. Rebuilding the workforce: free, slave and indentured labour
• 2. The food crisis of 1946-1947
• 3. Attenuated recovery: the end of rationing, housing and health
• 4. 'Socializing' the next generation: the position of young workers
• 5. Labour discipline and criminal law: the futility of repression
• 6. The industrial enterprise: working conditions, work organization and wage determination
• Conclusion: labour and the 'renormalization' of Stalinist social relations
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.
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• Tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Price of Victory Educating a New Elite Recruiting Industry's Supervisors Anointing the Masters of the Workplace The Implications of Stalin's Technocracy Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite focuses on the technical intelligentsia's postwar construction as a Stalinist elite and shows that postwar Stalinism differed in significant respects from the prewar Stalin phenomenon. J.Eric Duskin finds that the postwar technical intelligentsia emerged from the late-Stalin era as a more stable, influential, and far larger social cohort than it had been before the war, and he demonstrates that elite recruitment in the late Stalin years helped to institutionalize technocratic socialism. The book portrays the late-Stalin era's commitment to social stability and professionalization by examining the social and economic contexts for postwar elite formation, the training of the technical intelligentsia in the Soviet higher education system and their subsequent hiring as industrial managers and supervisors, and the structures of authority and social relations inside Soviet factories. In the end, Duskin argues that the social policies of the late-Stalin era ultimately laid the groundwork for the stability and stagnation of the Brezhnev era.
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