The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939

Preface

Contents

About the Authors

List of Tables

Chapter 1 The Repressions of 1937–1938 and the Soviet Economy

1 The Nomenklatura Purge

2 The Mass Purge

3 The Effect of the Repressions on the Economy

Chapter 2 The Political Context of Economic Change: 1937 to the Spring of 1939

1 The Advance of German and Japanese Aggression

2 The Revised Political Ideology

3 Politics and Society in 1937 and 1938

Chapter 3 The Economic Slowdown of 1937

1 The 1937 Plan: The Shift Back to More Balanced Growth

2 Plans and Purges

3 The First Half of 1937

4 The Second Half of 1937

Chapter 4 1937 in Retrospect

1 Capital Investment

2 The Gulag Economy

3 Industrial Production

4 The Defence Industries

5 Labour and Labour Productivity

6 Agriculture: Plans and Policies

7 Agriculture: Operations and Outcomes

8 Internal Trade and Consumption

9 Foreign Trade

Chapter 5 The Soviet Population and the Censuses of 1937 and 1939

1 The Much-Delayed Census of 1937

2 Carrying Out the 1937 Census

3 The 1937 Census Outcomes Suppressed

4 1938 and Preparations for the 1939 Census

5 Popov’s Warning

6 Outcomes of the 1939 Census

7 The Two Censuses in Retrospect

Chapter 6 The Partial Recovery of the Economy in 1938

1 The Temporary Collapse and Revival of Planning

2 The Gulag Economy

3 Industrial Growth

4 The Defence Industries

5 The Railway Crisis

6 Internal Trade

7 Foreign Trade

Chapter 7 Agriculture in 1938 and 1939

1 The Agricultural Officials

2 The Private Sector After 1937

3 Plans and Policies, 1938

4 Operations and Outcomes, 1938

5 Plans and Policies, 1939

6 Operations and Outcomes, 1939

Chapter 8 The Drive for Growth and the Eighteenth Party Congress, January–March 1939

1 The Third Five-Year Plan

2 Current Economic Planning

3 Managing the Industrial Worker

4 The Eighteenth Party Congress

Chapter 9 The Economy in 1939: Further Moves to a War Economy

1 The Growth of Industry

2 The Defence Industries

3 The GULAG Economy

4 Internal Trade and Consumption

5 The Soviet-German Accord

Chapter 10 The Soviet Economy: The Late 1930s in Historical Perspective

1 Forced Industrialisation

2 The Measurement of Economic Performance

3 Militarisation: A War Economy in Peacetime

4 The Emergence of the Soviet Union as a World Power

5 The Reformability of the Soviet Economy

6 The Nature of Soviet Economic Development

Afterword: The History of the Soviet Union

Appendix A: All-Union People’s Commissariats and Other Agencies of the USSR, 1937–1939

Appendix B: Tables

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Technical Terms

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects