In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled reargua
Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context
Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.D. Kondratiev (1892-1938), who was a key policy adviser to the Soviet government in the early part of the 1920s. Kondratiev developed a market-led indust
The East-West Debate Over Pacific Siberian Development
An analysis of Soviet spatial resource allocation decision making during the period 1955-1980, utilizing a political economy framework to evaluate the "East-West" debate over relative investment shares in the European and Pacific Siberian parts of th