Soviet Economic Development since 1917
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London, Great Britain
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 515
First sentence: When we contemplate the economic and social changes which have taken place during the past thirty years over the area which used to be called the Russian Empire, novetly and magnitude compete for our attention.
Notes: Soviet Economic Development since 1917 
The story of the economic development of the Soviet Union holds a special interest for our time. Since it provides the first case in history of the establishment of a socialist economy, it has an interest for economists and economic historians of our century at least as great as that of post-1789 France for political theorist and historians of the last century. At the same time it affords a unique example of the transformation of a backward country into an industrial country of modern technique at an unprecedented tempo and under the guidance of a national economic plan. As such it may well become the classic type for the future industrialisation of the countries of Asia and of south-eastern Europe. It is doubtful whether in any previous age so profound a change affecting so large an area of the world's surface has ever occurred within so narrow a span of time. 
This work embodies some of the material which first appeared in 1928 in the author's Russian Economic Development Since the Revolution, and brings the story of Soviet economy down to the efforts at reconstruction after the Second World War. A new chapter added to the present edition covers the post-war decade from the end of the war to the announcement of the Sixth Five Year Plan. 
'This massive and well-produced book is both interesting and important. Mr Dobb is direct, lucid and learned in a subject essentially difficult, confused and dubious. It is by far the most valuable single volume on its subject.' - Economist
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART ONE; label: PREFACE
title: vii; label: CHAPTER ONE:
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: The Significance of a Study of Soviet Economic Development for the Problems of Our Time; label: CHAPTER TWO:
title: Russian Economic Development Prior to the First World War
pagenum: 34; label: CHAPTER THREE: The Prelude to November 1917
title: 61; title: PART TWO; label: CHAPTER FOUR:
title: The First Eight Months
pagenum: 82; label: CHAPTER FIVE:
title: The Period of 'War Communism'
pagenum: 97; label: CHAPTER SIX:
title: The Transition to the New Economic Policy
pagenum: 125; label: CHAPTER SEVEN:
title: The First Years of Economic Recovery and the 'Scissors' Crisis of 1923
pagenum: 149; label: CHAPTER EIGHT:
title: The Problem of Industrialisation
pagenum: 177; label: CHAPTER NINE:
title: The Agrarian Situation on the Eve of the First Five Year Plan
pagenum: 208; label: CHAPTER TEN:
title: The First Five Year Plan
pagenum: 230; label: Note to Chapter Ten on Soviet Industrial Statistics
title: 261; label: CHAPTER ELEVEN:
title: The Second Five Year Plan
pagenum: 269; label: CHAPTER TWELVE:
title: The Third Five Year Plan and the War, and the Five Year Plan for Post-war Rehabilitation and Development
pagenum: 291; label: CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
title: The Two Post-War Decades
pagenum: 313; title: PART THREE; label: CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
title: The Planning System
pagenum: 337; label: CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
title: The Financial Plan and the Financial System
pagenum: 385; label: CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
title: The Location of Industry
pagenum: 424; label: CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
title: Trade Unions, Wages and Conditions of Labour
pagenum: 446; label: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
title: 493; label: INDEX OF AUTHORITIES
title: 475; label: INDEX OF SUBJECTS
title: 478