The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress [electronic resource] : The Soviet Economy, 1934-1936 /
Davies, R.author.
Khlevni︠u︡k, O. V.(Oleg Vitalʹevich)
Wheatcroft, S. G.
Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1. THE XVII PARTY CONGRESS AND THE SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN; (A) The Background; (B) The Congress Proceedings and the Five-year Plan; 2. 1934: A YEAR OF RELAXATION: THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND; 3. THE ECONOMY IN 1934; (A) The 1934 Plan; (B) The First Six Months; (i) Industry and investment; (ii) Internal trade; (iii) Finance; (iv) Agriculture; (C) The Second Six Months; (i) Financial and trade crisis; (ii) Preliminary moves towards the abolition of rationing; (iii) Agriculture; (D) The Outcome
(i) The conference on heavy industry. September 1934, and its aftermath(ii) Industrial production; (iii) Investment; (iv) The defence sector; (v) The Gulag economy; (vi) The railways; (vii) Agriculture; 4. 1935: THE GROWING THREAT OF WAR; 5. THE 1935 PLAN AND THE ABOLITION OF BREAD RATIONING; (A) The Initial Stage of Preparing the 1935 Plan, July-August 1934; (B) The Decision to End Bread Rationing; (C) The Adoption of the 1935 Plan; 6. 'CONTINUOUS ADVANCE': JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 1935; (A) Industrial Production; (B) Investment; (C) Internal Trade Following the Abolition of Bread Rationing
(D) Finance and Credit(E) Agriculture; (F ) The Push to Further Expansion; 7. 'ADVANCING TO ABUNDANCE', SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1935; (A) The Launching of the Stakhanov Movement; (i) The background; (ii) The Stakhanov 'leap forward'; (iii) Stakhanovism and the campaign against 'sabotage'; (B) The End of Food Rationing, October 1, 1935; (C) The October-December Economic Plan and its Outcome; (i) The quarterly plan; (ii) Industrial production and costs in practice; (iii) Capital investment; (iv) Internal trade after the abolition of all food rationing; (v) Finance and credit; 8. 1935 IN RETROSPECT
(A) Capital Investment(B) Industrial Production; (C) Armaments Production; (D) The Role of the Gulag; (E) The Triumph of the Railways; (F) Internal Trade; (i) Retail trade and the rise of the market; (ii) Reform of the trade network; (G) Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments; (i) Foreign trade; (ii) The balance of payments; (H) Labour and Labour Productivity; (I) Costs and Prices; (J) The State Budget; (K) The Attempts at Financial Reform; (L) The Advance of Agriculture; (i) The continued spread of collectivisation; (ii) The rapid growth of agriculture; 9. THE AMBITIOUS 1936 PLAN
(A) Stalin Overrules Molotov: The July 1935 Directives(B) The Adoption of the Plan, December 1935-January 1936; 10. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1936; 11. 1936: 'THE STAKHANOVITE YEAR'; (A) The Advance Accelerates, January-June 1936; (B) Stakhanovism and the Economy, January-August 1936: The Campaign against Sabotage Temporarily Withdrawn; (C) The Council of Narkomtyazhprom, June 25-29, 1936; (D) Mild Deceleration, July-December 1936; (E) The Failure of the 1936 Harvest; 12. THE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF 1936; (A) Industrial Production; (B) The Crisis in the Coal Industry
(C) The Armaments Industry
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.
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