Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

To say that history's greatest economic experiment—Soviet communism—was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet histo...