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Robert Davies et al. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 6.

Robert Davies – Oleg Khlevnyuk – Stephen Wheatcroft. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 6. The Years of Progress. The Soviet Economy, 1934-1936

Londres: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

500 páginas.

CONTENTS

Preface

1 – THE XVII PARTY CONGRESS AND THE SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN

The Background

The Congress Proceedings and the Five-year Plan

2 – 1934: A YEAR OF RELAXATION: THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND

3 – THE ECONOMY IN 1934

The 1934 Plan

The First Six Months

The Second Six Months

The Outcome

4 – 1935: THE GROWING THREAT OF WAR

5 – THE 1935 PLAN AND THE ABOLITION OF BREAD RATIONING

The Initial Stage of Preparing the 1935 Plan, July–August 1934

The Decision to End Bread Rationing

The Adoption of the 1935 Plan

6 – ‘CONTINUOUS ADVANCE’: JANUARY–SEPTEMBER 1935

Industrial Production

Investment

Internal Trade Following the Abolition of Bread Rationing

Finance and Credit

Agriculture

The Push to Further Expansion

7 – ‘ADVANCING TO ABUNDANCE’, SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 1935

The Launching of the Stakhanov Movement

The End of Food Rationing, October 1, 1935

The October–December Economic Plan and its Outcome

8 – 1935 IN RETROSPECT

Capital Investment

Industrial Production

Armaments Production

The Role of the Gulag

The Triumph of the Railways

Internal Trade

Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments

Labour and Labour Productivity

Costs and Prices

The State Budget

The Attempts at Financial Reform

The Advance of Agriculture

9 – THE AMBITIOUS 1936 PLAN

Stalin Overrules Molotov: The July 1935 Directives

The Adoption of the Plan, December 1935–January 1936

10 – THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1936

11 – 1936: ‘THE STAKHANOVITE YEAR’

The Advance Accelerates, January–June 1936

Stakhanovism and the Economy, January–August 1936: The Campaign against Sabotage Temporarily Withdrawn

The Council of Narkomtyazhprom, June 25–29, 1936

Mild Deceleration, July–December 1936

The Failure of the 1936 Harvest

12 – THE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF 1936

Industrial Production

The Crisis in the Coal Industry

The Armaments Industry

The Capital Investment Campaign

Expansion of the Gulag

Internal Trade and Consumption

Foreign Trade

Labour and Labour Productivity

Costs and Finance

The Agricultural Crisis and its Solution

Appendix A

Appendix B

CONCLUSIONS

Tables

Bibliography