Gordon Brown and the credit crunch in historical perspective: Richard Toye, History & Policy

Gordon Brown and the credit crunch in historical perspective

by Richard Toye

from History & Policy: connecting history to today.

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Further Reading re the question: 'Why did Stalin seek to transform the USSR economically & how successful was he?'

Recommended by Dr. James Harris, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds.

Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974) ch. 8 “The Crises of Moderation”

Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Cultural Revolution as Class War” in Sheila Fitzpatrick ed., Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931 (1978)

Michal Reiman, The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the “Second Revolution” (1987)

Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR (1992) esp. chs. 7-9.

R. W. Davies, Stephen Wheatcroft and Mark Harrison eds., The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 (1993) esp. ch. 7

Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

Erik Van Ree, The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin (2002) ch. 15"

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To what extent was the First World War responsible for the longer-term Liberal decline?

Hester Barron, University of Sussex.

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Why did Stalin seek to transform the USSR economically & how successful was he?

James Harris, University of Leeds.

In this podcast Dr. Harris explains why all Bolsheviks agreed on the need to overcome economic backwardness. He explores why Soviet industrialisation took the form it did in the late 1920s, and then explores a fascinating paradox: How the Soviet planned economy in the 1930s was at once both a spectacular success and a catastrophic failure.
Contents:
1. Why did Stalin seek to transform the USSR economically?
2. But were Stalin’s Five Year plans successful?
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