Stalin & the Economic Transformation of the USSR

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DATE : Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:10:47 +0000
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In this podcast Dr. Harris explains why all Bolsheviks agreed on the need to overcome economic backwardness. He explores why Soviet industrialisation took the form it did in the late 1920s, and then explores a fascinating paradox: How the Soviet planned economy in the 1930s was at once both a spectacular success and a catastrophic [...]

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