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Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934 1st Paperback Edition
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In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of Stalinist leaders rather than the inevitable by-product of socialist industrialization.
Focusing on the different economic and bureaucratic cultures within the industrial system, Shearer reconstructs the debates in 1928 and 1929 over administrative, financial, and commercial reform. He uses information from recently opened archives to show that attempts by the state's trading organizations to create a commercial economy enjoyed wide support, offering a model that combined planning and rapid industrialization with social democracy and economic prosperity. In an effort to crush the syndicate movement and establish tight political control over the economy, Stalinist leaders intervened with a program of radical reforms. Shearer demonstrates that professional engineers, planners and industrial administrators in many cases actively supported the creation of a powerful industrial state unhampered by domestic social and economic constraints.
The paradoxical result, Shearer shows, was a loss of control. The overly centralized system that emerged during the first Five-Year Plan was rendered incoherent by periodic economic crises and the continuing influence of partially suppressed social and market forces.
- ISBN-109780801483851
- ISBN-13978-0801483851
- Edition1st Paperback Edition
- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication dateJanuary 3, 1997
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.12 x 0.59 x 9.25 inches
- Print length288 pages
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This book is an important contribution to Soviet institutional history that significantly deepens our understanding of the formative period of the 'command' economy.
― Slavic ReviewReview
A work of exceptional scholarly merit, this book is institutional history of a depth that has not been matched by any recent publications in the field of Soviet history.
-- Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State UniversityAbout the Author
David R. Shearer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.
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- ASIN : 0801483859
- Publisher : Cornell University Press; 1st Paperback Edition (January 3, 1997)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780801483851
- ISBN-13 : 978-0801483851
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Lexile measure : 1470L
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.12 x 0.59 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,991,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,173 in Business Development
- #4,931 in Development & Growth Economics (Books)
- #5,270 in Economic Policy
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