{"product_id":"2026200016222-secondhand-an-economic-history-of-the-u-s-s-r","title":"An Economic History Of The U.S.S.R.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew economic stories are as turbulent, consequential, and fiercely debated as that of the Soviet Union, and Alec Nove's An Economic History of the U.S.S.R. remains the definitive guide through its labyrinthine complexity. Nove chronicles the dramatic arc of the Soviet economy from the final decades of Tsarist Russia, through the cataclysm of revolution and civil war, the brutal forced industrialisation of the Stalin era, and into the post-war period of cautious reform — presenting each phase with meticulous scholarly rigour and an eye for the human cost behind the statistics. The book traces how ideological imperatives repeatedly collided with economic reality, producing policies whose consequences ranged from remarkable industrial achievement to catastrophic famine.\n\nNove writes with the authoritative clarity of a scholar who commands both the theoretical frameworks of economics and the rich, contradictory archive of Soviet history, making this work as accessible to the general reader as it is indispensable to the specialist. His analysis argues that the failures and successes of the Soviet experiment cannot be separated from the political structures that shaped every plan, quota, and decree. First published in 1969 and reissued in the influential Pelican Books imprint, the work has stood the test of time as an essential primer — leaving the reader to wonder whether the lessons of the USSR's economic trajectory have truly been learned by the world that outlived it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342769594587,"sku":"2026200016222-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/637ae4fb-5076-422d-9b97-0a8cb0a04acc.png?v=1790048898","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016222-secondhand-an-economic-history-of-the-u-s-s-r","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}