General Information

Author/Creator

Swianiewicz, Stanisław.

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1965.

Physical Description

ix, 321 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Forced labor > Soviet Union.

Industrialization > Soviet Union.

Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1917-1945.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

[by] S. Swianiewicz.

Note

"Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs."

Content

PART I. The phenomenon. II. The main features of Soviet forced labour -- III. The extent of forced labour in the Soviet Union and its distribution among industries -- IV. Post-war developments -- PART II. Agricultural overpopulation and forced labour -- V. Agricultural overpopulation -- VI. Underemployment, public investment, and the labour market -- VII. The crossroads of industrialization -- VIII. Food supply and forced labour -- IX. The liquidation of agricultural overpopulation -- PART III. Full employment in an unfree society -- X. Economic and social aspects of the Great Purge of 1937-8 -- XI. Explosive planning -- XII. The labour bottleneck -- XIII. Investment and consumption in the Soviet system -- XIV. Forced saving and forced labour -- XV. The sociology of totalitarian full employment -- XVI. The problem of Soviet man -- PART IV. The lessons of Soviet experience -- XVII. The perils of the wage-goods gap -- XVIII. The background of the advance in industry and of the failure in agriculture -- XIX. A new era in economic history -- Appendix.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	338.0947 SWI		General Stacks	-

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