9780415682404-0415682401-Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)

Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9780415682404
ISBN-10: 0415682401
Edition: 1
Author: Alec Nove
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 318 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415682404
ISBN-10: 0415682401
Edition: 1
Author: Alec Nove
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 318 pages

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Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals) (ISBN-13: 9780415682404 and ISBN-10: 0415682401), written by authors Alec Nove, was published by Routledge in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.
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