In 1929-30, the "spinal year" of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power. This text, the third part of "The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia", re-examines the breakdown of the mixed economy. In those days of heroism and enthusiasm, hunger and repression, crucial Soviet economic and political institutions were established, and are only now being effectively challenged by Gorbachev's revolution. While complementing the previous two volumes of this author's work, the book is designed to be read independently. It sheds new light on a moment in Soviet history and in the formation of the Soviet system.
- ISBN10 0333745159
- ISBN13 9780333745151
- Publish Date 7 October 1998 (first published 21 April 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 632
- Language English