Accounting for War : Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940–1945

Omtale

How did the Soviet Union compare economically with its allies and adversaries before and during World War II? Was Soviet economic survival under massive German attack to be expected? What did the war cost in rubles, lives and forgone postwar economic well-being? This book answers these questions, providing a comprehensive analysis of the hitherto secret Soviet statistical record.