Farm to factory: A reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution.

Book

Reassesses Soviet economic performance--reconstructing quantitative dimensions of growth, presenting international comparisons, and simulating counterfactual development through computer modeling--to learn which parts of the Soviet economic experiment worked, which failed, and why. Examines economic growth before 1917; the development problem in the 1920s; the feasibility of the plan for agriculture to contribute to economic development through output expansion, labor release, and increased sales; planning, collectivization, and rapid growth; the population history of the Soviet Union; the standard of living during Soviet industrialization; the causes of rapid industrialization; the ways in which collectivization increased the rate of economic growth; and why the economy, which grew so rapidly from the 1920s into the 1960s, performed so badly in the 1970s and the 1980s. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University. Bibliography; index.

Authors: Allen, R

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Place of publication: Princeton and Oxford
• Publication date: 2003-01-01
• Language: English