Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945In 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 compares 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 that persisted well after the end of the war. The results are based on a comprehensive analysis of hitherto closed official documents, shedding light on the dimensions of the Soviet war effort, the comparative economics of the war, and its long-term impact on the Soviet economy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
An inside view | 17 |
Measuring Soviet GNP | 39 |
Industry | 58 |
GNP and the defence burden | 91 |
The Alliance | 128 |
War losses | 155 |
Conclusion | 170 |
From gross output to value added | 205 |
E Crosschecks on defence industry trends | 218 |
F An inputoutput table | 233 |
G Industrial employment | 254 |
J Foreign trade and aid | 274 |
Appendices to chapter | 292 |
Notes | 306 |
Bibliography | 322 |
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Common terms and phrases
1937 factor cost Abram Bergson Agriculture air munitions aircraft ammunition appendix armament artisan industry basic industry Bergson billion rubles branch budget calculated capital cent civilian industry commissariat current prices defence burden defence industry defence outlays deflation domestic employment fuel GNP per head Goskomstat Gosplan Gross national product gross output ground and air growth GULAG Harrison hidden inflation imports index numbers input/output table inputs intermediate interpolated investment Jasny Khanin kolkhoz Lend-Lease less row light industry losses machinery material product MBMW measure million mobilisation Moorsteen and Powell national accounts national income NKVD NMP utilised nomic nondefence Nonferrous metals physical units population postwar prevailing prices prewar ratio RGAE row 9 rubles at 1937 Russian sector shown in table Sources Soviet economy Soviet Union steel Sukharevskii sum of rows supply table A.1 Timber tons total final demand trade transport trend TSSU unit USSR Voznesenskii weights workers World World War II