Selected readings for Econ 472


Here you can find links to the readings for Econ 472.

Note that many of the links are to JSTOR, which is accessible to PSU students. You will need a pdf reader.

Serfdom and late Imperial Economic Development

•    Domar, Evsey D. "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis," The Journal of Economic History, 30 (1): 18-32;

•    Markevich, Andrei and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. "Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," American Economic Review, vol. 108, no. 4-5, April 2018: 1074-1117.

•    Goldsmith, Raymond,  W. "The Economic Growth of Tsarist Russia 1860-1913", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1961, 9(3): 441-475.

•    Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic backwardness in historical perspective, a book of essays, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. Chapter 1..



Russia in the First World War


•    Gatrell, Peter, "Poor Russia, poor show: mobilizing a backward economy for war, 1914-1917," in Broadberry, Stephen and Mark Harrison, The Economics of World War I, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

•    Markevich, Andrei and Mark Harrison. "Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia's National Income, 1913 to 1928," Journal of Economic History, 71, 3, September 2011: 672-703.

•    Harrison, Mark and Andrei Markevich, "Russia's Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy," 2012, mimeo.


Here are some chapters from Nove

•    Chapters 3 and 4, War Communism and NEP.
 
•    Chapters 5, 6, 7,  The Great Debate, the End of NEP, and Collectivization.


Here are some papers relevant for Soviet Industrialization and the Command Economy

•    Gregory, Paul R. and Andrei Markevich, "Creating Soviet Industry: The House That Stalin Built," Slavic Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 787-814 (28 pages).
 
•    Wheatcroft, Stephen and Robert Davies, "The Crooked Mirror of Soviet Economic Statistics," in Davies, R., Mark Harrison, and S. Wheatcroft, editors, The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
 
•    Here is Gregory Grossman's article on The Economics of Virtuous Haste.


Here are some readings for the postwar Soviet economy

 
•    Here is a link to an online copy of Red Plenty by Francis Spufford. Essential reading.


  Here are some papers relevant for the decline of the Soviet Economy

 
•    Trachtenburg, Marc, "Assessing Soviet Economic Performance During the Cold War: A Failure of Intelligence." Texas Review of National Security, vol. 1, 2, February 2018.


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