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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 473–515.
Published: 01 September 2000
... . History of Venona . Fort George Meade, Md.: National Security Agency (classified). Benson, Robert Louis, and Michael Warner, eds. 1996 . Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response,1939-1957 . Washington, D.C.: National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency. Bentley, Elizabeth. 1945...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (3): 436–437.
Published: 01 September 1976
... KARENI. VAUGHN The Mathematical Revolution in Soviet Economics. By Alfred Zauberman. London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 62. $9.00. The raison d’Ctre of this very short and very expensive volume is to provide a nontechnical insight...
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History of Political Economy (1969) 1 (1): 187–216.
Published: 01 March 1969
...Vladimir G. Treml Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Interaction of Economic Thought and Economic Policy in the Soviet Union Vladimir G. Treml In Search of a Model From the early days of the October 1917 revolution through the purges...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vincent Barnett A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Economics . By Campbell Robert W. . London : Routledge , 2012 . ix ; 463 pp. Hardback $200.00 . Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Russian...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (S1): 191–225.
Published: 01 December 1991
...Christopher Mark Davis Marxist and Soviet Defense Economics, 1848-1927 Christopher Mark Davis In the nineteenth century Marx and Engels founded and partially elabo- rated a theory of the historical development of society that was based on the concepts of materialist determinants of phenomena...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 471–496.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Daniel Kuehn Abstract In his 1962 NBER volume, The Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union , Warren Nutter writes about how the study of the Soviet economy was hamstrung by official secrecy and data limitations. Western economists were forced to rely on what Nutter called “Marco Polo...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 467–488.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ivan Boldyrev Abstract This article tells the story of the first international topological conference in Moscow (1935), an outstanding event that, for the first time, brought together the most notable American, European, and Soviet mathematicians, including those who would later play decisive roles...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 270–293.
Published: 01 December 2020
... experimental economics—something that, given the ideological and intellectual constraints Aizerman was facing, was hardly possible in the Soviet context, but could have been a synthesis of economics and engineering. The article also discusses a research culture Aizerman created and nurtured in his lab...
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History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (4): 691–693.
Published: 01 November 1986
.... In conclusion, the essays are informative, stimulating and well executed with an economy of style. St. Lawrence University JEFFREY T. YOUNG Socialism, planning and optimality: a study in Soviet economic thought. By Pekka Sutela. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Science...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 75–99.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Oleg Ananyin; Denis Melnik The article traces trends in Soviet economic discourse from the 1920s until perestroika. We examine the works of leading political economists of this period through the lens of debates on market exchanges under socialism—the central theoretical issue of the political...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 127–151.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Adam E. Leeds Yurii Yaremenko was one of the late great theorists of the Soviet planning system. His theory, as presented first in censored and self-censored form in his major monograph, Structural Changes in the Socialist Economy (1981), describes the planned economy as composed of groups...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 180–203.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Olessia Kirtchik This article is focused on the economic works of the Soviet machinelearning pioneer Emmanuil Braverman, who published, during the 1970s, a series of papers introducing disequilibrium fixed-price models of the Soviet economy. This highly original theory, developed independently from...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 231–252.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Chris Miller This article examines shifts in Soviet ideas about the economic and political role of the state. Drawing on documents from Russian archives as well as published debates, the article traces Soviet ideas about how states operate. Examining the role of writers such as Fedor Burlatsky...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (3): 435–461.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Ivan Boldyrev; Olessia Kirtchik In this article we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory in the Soviet Union during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 204–227.
Published: 01 December 2019
... experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of governmental, managerial, and industrial applications of systems analysis in the Soviet context, as well as the transfer of Soviet systems...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 100–126.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Yakov Feygin This article examines the career of Yakov Kronrod, a Soviet economic theorist, in the context of the larger transformation of Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period. It argues that Kronrod’s debates with his rivals in the “Mathematical Economics” and “Moscow State University...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 283–304.
Published: 01 December 2024
...François Allisson Abstract The French Marxist economist Charles Bettelheim (1913–2006) conducted after the end of World War II important scientific activity on economic planning, together with an international consulting activity in developing countries, as a non-Soviet expert on Soviet planning...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 155–179.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Richard E. Ericson This article discusses the perhaps most systematic attempt to develop mathematical methods for use in planning and management of the Soviet economy: the system for optimal functioning of the economy (SOFE). The intellectual ferment of the post-Stalin “thaw,” and increasing...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 234–260.
Published: 01 December 2010
...David C. Engerman In the 1940s and 1950s, as Soviet studies became a vibrant academic enterprise with significant links to the policy world, economic Sovietology occupied a special place. Those same years saw, also, the first major wave of decolonization and with it the rise of development...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 277–299.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Joachim Zweynert The article analyzes the reception of the idea of convergence in Soviet economics from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It is predominantly concerned with convergence theory as a policy idea that inspired perestroika. Its central question is: Under the conditions...