Soviet Metal Fabricating And Economic Development

Study of industrial development in the USSR, during the period of the first 2 five-year plans, with particular reference to the metalworking industry - covers factory organization, the volume of investment in capital and labour, production, specialisation in machine tools, agricultural machinery, etc., and includes business organization, working conditions of metalworkers, occupational qualifications and industrial research. References.

Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.

This book follows on from the author’s volume Russian Economic Development and although it encompasses some of the same material it charts the history and progress of the Soviet economy down to the efforts at reconstruction after The Second World War. A new chapter was added which covers the post-war decade from the end of the war to the announcement of the Sixth Year Plan.