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In this book Mark Harrison rebuilds and analyses the Soviet economy's
wartime statistical record, examining its prewar size and composition, and
wartime changes in GNP, employment, the defence burden, and the role of
foreign aid. Complementing classic long-run growth studies the book com-
pares the Soviet experience with that of other great powers. It emphasises the
severity of current costs and capital losses arising from the war, which had a
negative effect on GNP which persisted well after 1945. The results are based
on a comprehensive analysis of hitherto closed official documents, throwing
new light on the dimensions of the Soviet war effort, the comparative eco-
nomics of the war, and its long-term impact on the Soviet economy.
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Cambridge University Press and the British Association for Slavonic and East
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substantial and original research on the economics, politics, sociology and
modern history of Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
99 MARK HARRISON
Accounting for war
Soviet production, employment, and the defence burden, 1940-1945
98 KAZIMIERZ Z. POZNANSKI
Poland's protracted transition
Institutional change and economic growth, 1971-1993
97 ANITA J. PRAZMOWSKA
Britain and Poland, 1939-1943
The betrayed ally
96 JOHN DOYLE KLIER
Imperial Russia's Jewish question 1855-1881
95 DON C. RAWSON
Russian rightists and the revolution of 1905
94 GRAEME GILL
The collapse of a single party system
The disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
93 DONALD FILTZER
Soviet workers and the collapse of perestroika
The Soviet labour process and Gorbachev's reforms, 1985-1991
92 PETER GATRELL
Government, industry and rearmamerit in Russia, 1900-1914
The last argument oftsarism
91 LINDA RACIOPPI
Soviet policy towards South Asia since 1970
90 WENDY GOLDMAN
Women, the State and the family
Soviet family policy and social life, 1917-1936
89 JONATHAN C. VALDEZ
Internationalism and the ideology of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
88 PETER RUTLAND
The politics of economic stagnation in the Soviet Union
The role of local party organs in economic management
87 DONALD FILTZER
Soviet workers and de-Stalinization
The consolidation of the modern system of Soviet production relations 1953-1964
86 MILIC UVALIC
Investment and property rights in Yugoslavia
The long transition to a market economy
85 AVRIL PITTMAN
From Ostpolitik to reunification: West German/Soviet political relations since 1974
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ACCOUNTING FOR WAR
Soviet production, employment,
and the defence burden,
1940-1945
MARK HARRISON
University of Warwick
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Accounting for war: Soviet production, employment and the defence
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In this book Mark Harrison rebuilds and analyses the Soviet economy's

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies: 99

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, under the auspices of

From Ostpolitik to reunification: West German/Soviet political relations since 1974

Series list continues on page 339

© Cambridge University Press 1996

This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception

First published 1996

First paperback edition 2002

A catalogue recordfor this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

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