Accounting for War - Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 19401945

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 A reconstruction and analysis of the Soviet economy's wartime statistical record. Zusammenfassung How did the Soviet Union compare economically with its allies and adversaries before and during World War II? Was Soviet economic survival under massive German attack to be expected? What did the war cost in rubles! lives and forgone postwar economic well-being? This book answers these questions! providing a comprehensive analysis of the hitherto secret Soviet statistical record. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The research agenda; 2. An inside view; 3. Measuring Soviet GNP; 4. Industry; 5. GNP and the defence burden; 6. The Alliance; 7. War losses; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mark Harrison, Mark (Professor of Economics Harrison
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521894241
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89424-1
• Pages: 376
• Thème: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Economie publique