Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State

By: Mark Harrison

Book Overview

For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians--R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison--scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume's contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin's dictatorship,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300209126
• ISBN13: 9780300209129
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"