U.S.S.R.: Her Life And Her People
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the height of the Second World War, when the Soviet Union stood as both an enigma and an unlikely ally to the Western world, Cambridge economist Maurice Dobb produced a landmark survey of life behind the Iron Curtain — a work of rare clarity and scholarly authority that brought the vast, complex reality of the USSR into focus for ordinary readers. U.S.S.R.: Her Life and Her People chronicles the social, economic, and cultural fabric of the Soviet state, drawing on Dobb's deep expertise in Russian economic development to present an authoritative portrait of a nation forged by revolution, shaped by central planning, and tested by war. Illustrated with maps and photographs, it guides the reader through the geography, institutions, and daily rhythms of a civilization largely closed to outside eyes. Dobb, a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and author of seminal works on Soviet economic development and socialist planning, writes with the measured confidence of a scholar who spent decades studying the USSR from the inside out. His prose is lucid and precise, balancing statistical rigour with genuine human insight, making this an invaluable document not only of wartime geopolitics but of mid-century intellectual engagement with the Soviet experiment. For historians, economists, and anyone curious about how the world's largest nation truly functioned beneath the propaganda of both East and West, this rare 1943 wartime edition poses a question that still resonates: what does it mean for an entire people to remake themselves from the ground up?
Author: Maurice Dobb
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, University of London Press Ltd.
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the height of the Second World War, when the Soviet Union stood as both an enigma and an unlikely ally to the Western world, Cambridge economist Maurice Dobb produced a landmark survey of life behind the Iron Curtain — a work of rare clarity and scholarly authority that brought the vast, complex reality of the USSR into focus for ordinary readers. U.S.S.R.: Her Life and Her People chronicles the social, economic, and cultural fabric of the Soviet state, drawing on Dobb's deep expertise in Russian economic development to present an authoritative portrait of a nation forged by revolution, shaped by central planning, and tested by war. Illustrated with maps and photographs, it guides the reader through the geography, institutions, and daily rhythms of a civilization largely closed to outside eyes. Dobb, a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and author of seminal works on Soviet economic development and socialist planning, writes with the measured confidence of a scholar who spent decades studying the USSR from the inside out. His prose is lucid and precise, balancing statistical rigour with genuine human insight, making this an invaluable document not only of wartime geopolitics but of mid-century intellectual engagement with the Soviet experiment. For historians, economists, and anyone curious about how the world's largest nation truly functioned beneath the propaganda of both East and West, this rare 1943 wartime edition poses a question that still resonates: what does it mean for an entire people to remake themselves from the ground up?