From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSRRobert William Davies A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s. Questions posed include, was the tsarist economy successful, but destroyed by World War I? And was the breakdown of the mixed economy of the 1920s an arbitary political act? |
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1928 national income agricultural agricultural production average Black-Earth zone bourgeoisie budget capital census cent compared comparison consumer consumption control figures cotton decline desyatinas differentiation domestic economic engineering European Russia exports extra-rural factory farm foreign trade Gosplan grain production growth Gukhman higher hired labour historians important increased indicate industrial crops industrial production industrialisation investment khozyaistvo Kontrol'nye tsifry kulaks land large-scale industry less livestock lower machinery million rubles million tons Moscow non-agricultural non-grain number of horses off-farm activities official organised output peasant peasant households peasantry period Petrograd political population pre-revolutionary pre-war level railways recovery regions relatively result retail revolution role rural households Russian Empire sector small-scale industry social Soviet Union sown area SSSR St Petersburg statistics Stolypin reform substantial surplus Table textiles total number trend tsarist tsarist Russia TSSU Ukraine unemployed unemployment urban USSR Vesenkha village Wheatcroft workers zemstvo