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The Soviet military-economic effort during the second five-year plan (1933-1937)
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Harrison, Mark and Davies, R.W. (1997) The Soviet military-economic effort during the second five-year plan (1933-1937). Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.49 (No.3). pp. 369-406. doi:10.1080/09668139708412447 ISSN 0966-8136.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668139708412447
Abstract
In our paper we aim to show the changing economic significance of defence outlays in
the period of the second five-year plan (1933-7).1 This period emerges as a time of
transition. Rapid rearmament had been begun during the first five-year plan (1928-32),
but from a very low base. In terms of the rising volume of activity, the following period
was less hectic. However, it was a period of exceptionally rapid change in military
technology and the technological level of defence industry products. It was followed by
a third period (the third five-year plan of 1938-42, interrupted by war) in which the
pace of rearmament was again exceptionally rapid and from a much higher initial base
than before. Moreover the renewed acceleration of defence mobilisation began in
1936, when the second five-year plan was still under way.
Central to our conventional picture of the Soviet economy in the second fiveyear
plan are what Naum Jasny called the ‘three good years’ of 1934-6. These were
years of good harvests, rapidly rising production, de-rationing of consumer markets,
and rising wages and farm incomes. For the defence sector, in contrast, these emerge
as years of struggle and tribulation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Defense industries -- Soviet Union, Weapons industry -- Soviet Union, Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1933-1937 | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Europe-Asia Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 0966-8136 | ||||
| Official Date: | 7 February 1997 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.49 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 369-406 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09668139708412447 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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