Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev

JOHN BARBER is Fellow and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His books include Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932, and The Soviet Home Front, 1941-5: a Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (with Mark Harrison). MARK HARRISON is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick,. His work includes The Soviet Home Front, 1941-5: a Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II, (with John Barber), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union: 1913-1945, co-editor, Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment and the Defence Burden, 1940-45 and The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison, (editor) .

...makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the Soviet defense industry. Journal of Cold War Studies

• List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations PART I: OVERVIEW The Structure and Development of the Defence-Industry Complex; J.Barber, M.Harrison, N.Simonov & B.Starkov PART II: THE FORMATIVE PHASE The 'War Scare' of 1927 and the Birth of the Soviet Defence-Industry Complex; N.Simonov The Red Army's Economic Objectives and Involvements in Economic Planning, 1925-40; L.Samuelson Defence Spending and Defence Industry in the 1930s; R.W.Davies & M.Harrison PART III: THE WAR AND THE POST-WAR PERIOD Wartime Mobilisation: A German Comparison; M.Harrison New Postwar Branches (1): Rocketry; M.Harrison New Postwar Branches (2): The Nuclear Industry; N.Simonov PART IV: THE DEFENCE-INDUSTRY COMPLEX AND SOCIETY The Defence-Industry Complex in Leningrad (1): The Interwar Period; A.Losik & A.Shcherba The Defence-industry Complex in Leningrad (2): The Postwar Uranium Industry; N.Lebina Krasnoiarsk-26: A Closed City of the Defence-Industry Complex; V.Glazyrina PART V: REGULATION AND CONTROL Mobpodgotovka: Mobilisation Planning in Industry; N.Simonov Voenpriemka: Prices, Costs, and Quality Assurance in Defence Industry; M.Harrison & N.Simonov The Security Organs and the Defence-Industry Complex; B.Starkov Index