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The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. John Barber

    1. King’s College, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Mark Harrison

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The structure and development of the defence-industry complex

      • John Barber, Mark Harrison, Nikolai Simonov, Boris Starkov
      Pages 3-29

  3. The Formative Phase

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The ‘war scare’ of 1927 and the birth of the defence-industry complex

      • N. S. Simonov
      Pages 33-46

    3. The Red Army and economic planning, 1925–40

      • Lennart Samuelson
      Pages 47-69

    4. Defence spending and defence industry in the 1930s

      • R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison
      Pages 70-95

  4. The War and the Postwar Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Wartime mobilisation: a German comparison

      • Mark Harrison
      Pages 99-117

    3. New postwar branches (1): rocketry

      • Mark Harrison
      Pages 118-149

    4. New postwar branches (2): the nuclear industry

      • N. S. Simonov
      Pages 150-170

  5. The Defence-industry Complex and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. The defence-industry complex in Leningrad (1): the interwar period

      • Aleksandr Losik, Aleksandr Shcherba
      Pages 173-183

    3. The defence-industry complex in Leningrad (2): the postwar uranium industry

      • Nataliia Lebina
      Pages 184-194

    4. Krasnoiarsk-26: a closed city of the defence-industry complex

      • Viktoriia Glazyrina
      Pages 195-202

  6. Regulation and Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Mobpodgotovka: mobilisation planning in interwar industry

      • N. S. Simonov
      Pages 205-222

    3. Voenpriemka: prices, costs, and quality assurance in interwar defence industry

      • Mark Harrison, Nikolai Simonov
      Pages 223-245

    4. The security organs and the defence-industry complex

      • Boris Starkov
      Pages 246-268

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 269-283
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About this book

The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialised in military production powerfully influenced the course of the twentieth century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defence.

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...makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the Soviet defense industry. Journal of Cold War Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • King’s College, Cambridge, UK

    John Barber

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Mark Harrison

About the editors

R.W. DAVIES Emeritus Professor, Russian Economic Studies, University of Birmingham VIKTORIIA GLAZYRINA Research Student, Department of History, State University of Economics and Finance, St Petersburg NATALIA LEBINA Professor of Russian History, State University of Economics and Finance, St Petersburg ALEKSANDR LOSIK Professor of Russian History, Aerospace Academy, St Petersburg LENNART SAMUELSON Research Fellow, Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence College, Stockholm ALEKSANDR SHCHERBA Reader in Russian History, Aerospace Academy, St Petersburg NIKOLAI SIMONOV formerly Senior Researcher, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow BORIS STARKOV Professor of Russian History, State University of Economics and Finance, St Petersburg

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