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Farm to Factory

Paperback • 2009 • English

Farm to Factory

By Robert C. Allen

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About the book

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history....Show more

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ISBN

9780691144313

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Farm to Factory

Format

Paperback

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