Guns and Rubles
Edited by Mark Harrison Guns and Rubles The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians—R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison—scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the...
Funding Loyalty
Belova, Eugenia, and Valery Lazarev Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party. The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party’s role in the Soviet institutional design. Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist party’s financial operations and...
