The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism

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Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 28, 1997 - Education - 283 pages
This description of real-world models and interpretive perspectives on Soviet economic and political theory and practice from 1917 through 1991 encompasses War Communism, New Economic Policy, Stalinism, and the reforms and debates of Krushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev. The work focuses on political economy as contrasted with pure economy, and it is organized on a more or less historical basis. The work demonstrates the forces that led to the disintegration of the Soviet state.

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Transitional Command Economy
13
Tables
20
Bolshevik Mixed Economy
39
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ALEX F. DOWLAH is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY-Canton. Dr. Dowlah has published a previous book called Soviet Political Economy in Transition: From Lenin to Gorbachev (Greenwood, 1992).

JOHN E. ELLIOTT is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Elliott is the author of many books and journal articles published in Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, History of Political Economy, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics and others.

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