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Informationen zum Autor Mark Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is co-editor of the Brill Taiwan Studies Series and an Expert Associate of the National Security College of the Australian National University. His work on Taiwan has appeared in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Thesis Eleven, in edited volumes such as Re-writing Culture in Taiwan and in other publications. Klappentext An assessment of war's impact on the Stalinist system of economic planning and management. Zusammenfassung This book is about the impact of World War II on the Soviet system of economic planning. It assesses the prewar Soviet economic system! how the economy measured up to wartime requirements! and the lessons laid down for the postwar Soviet approach to both peaceful and warlike tasks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Economic planning and the search for the balance; 2. The coming of war: plans and realities in 1941; 3. The Soviet productive effort; 4. The search for economic balance in wartime; 5. Soviet lessons from World War II; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
