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Book SynopsisCould the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently? In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists, and economists, the authors build a new, internally c
Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefacePt. IIntroductory BackgroundCh. 1The Nature of Our Work3Ch. 2Soviet Economic Policy Alternatives in the 1920s13Ch. 3Overall ends in Output and Final Use, Capital, Labor, and Population26Pt. IIThe Charge of the New BolsheviksCh. 4Operational Issues in Administering Rapid Output Expansion53Ch. 5New-Bolshevik Policies outside Agriculture64Ch. 6New-Bolshevik Agricultural Policy and an Alternative90Ch. 7Foreign Trade Developments124Ch. 8Identifying the Role of Defense Outlays136Ch. 9Keeping Track of Capital Growth144Ch. 10An Appraisal of New-Bolshevik Economic Policies160Pt. IIITesting Alternative Economic PoliciesCh. 11The KAPROST Model: Logic and Structure177Ch. 12Insights Derived from the KAPROST Model205Ch. 13Tracing the Consequences of Alternative Policies231Ch. 14Lessons from Soviet Economic Experience255Appendix A: Statistical Foundations for Our Analysis273Appendix B: Dealing with the Index Number Problem302Appendix C: Model Equations309References329Index337
