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The Overambitious First Soviet Five-Year Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1973

References

1. For a lucid introduction to input-output analysis see Chenery, Hollis B. and Clark, Paul G., Interindustry Economics (New York, 1959).Google Scholar

2. For a detailed review of the period see Jasny, Naum, Soviet Industrialisation, 1928-1952 (Chicago, 1961)Google Scholar, and Alec, Nove, An Economic History of the U.S.S.R. (London and Baltimore, 1969)Google Scholar.

3. The record is analyzed in Holland, Hunter, Soviet Transportation Policy (Cambridge, Mass., 1957).Google Scholar

4. See my “Priorities and Shortfalls in Prewar Soviet Planning,” in Jane, Degras and Alec, Nove, eds., Soviet Planning : Essays in Honour of Naum Jasny (Oxford, 1964), pp. 131.Google Scholar

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