R. W. Davies (1925–2021)
Autor de Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-30
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de R. W. Davies
The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 (1993) — Editor; Contribuidor — 15 copias
From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR (1991) 3 copias
Absentismo Livro 1 2 copias
Manual de Acolhimento 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth: Essays Presented to Maurice Dobb (1975) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
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- Davies, Robert William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1925
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2021
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
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- 19
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- 161
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- #131,051
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- 3.8
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- 2
- ISBNs
- 47
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- 2
The disruptive impact of the purges on the Soviet economy is a major theme of the final volume of the "Industrialisation of Soviet Russia" series. In it its authors — R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk, and Stephen Wheatcroft — analyze the effects of the arrests on a Soviet economy still processing the collectivization of Soviet agriculture and the efforts to develop the industrial sector. Though the commissars and other managers arrested may have lacked the stature of the Party leaders or the marshals of the Red Army, their removal measurably slowed the growth of the Soviet economy. In some areas this slowing actually had the effect of feeding the purges, as the decline in growth and the failure to achieve the targets set by economic planners was attributed to sabotage, requiring the identification and arrest of suitable scapegoats.
Yet the purpose of the authors' book is not to describe the impact of the purges on the Soviet economy, but the Soviet Union's overall economic development during this period. As they note, the purges played less of a role in agriculture, where factors such as the weather were more important in determining output. Even more important than environmental conditions, though, was the international political scene. Here the authors place their analysis of the Soviet economic policy into a broader context, showing how the wars in Spain and China, as well as the increasing tensions within central and eastern Europe forced economic planners to readjust their plans to focus more on developing light industry and increasing the production of consumer goods. The result was an economy that by the start of 1939 was already gearing up for war, with even the purges ended in the face of the growing threat.
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