Books in the Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies series

This 1991 book was the first comprehensive study of the role of socialist countries within the international economic order. The author presents an overview of the emergence of the postwar economic order and examines the key features of three kinds of centrally planned economies.

This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. A focal point of the book is the educational policies which not only produced the 'Brezhnev generation' but also linked Stalin's regime with the massive upward mobility of the industrializing 1930s.

Using Russian archive materials, this book examines the ability of the tsarist government and Russian industrialists to respond to the multiple challenges of war, revolution, and political reform in the early 20th century.

Originally published in 1973, this book deals with the development of financial institutions, changes in methods of finance and the role of monetary control in socialist economic management. The structure and activity of financial institutions were deliberately adapted to changes in policy planning techniques used in socialist economies.

This is the first political and social history in English of Stalin's industrial revolution during the first Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932. Dr Kuromiya argues that Stalin and his advisers made industrialization politically possible by presenting it as a 'class war', mercilessly suppressing those suspected as 'class enemies' and 'wreckers' and seeking the support of industrial workers.

Professor Stent examines the development of Soviet-West German relations from both the Russian and German sides using extensive Soviet and West German sources. She has used a wide variety of materials including documents from the Kennedy administration and interviews with German government officials and business leaders.

This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution through to June 1918, when the Bolsheviks nationalised industry. The book demonstrates that the sphere of industrial production was a crucial arena of political as well as economic conflict.

This book is a revised version of the Polish edition published in 1971. It is based primarily on unpublished Polish contemporary documents and on interviews with highly placed participants in, and witnesses of, the Warsaw Rising. It provides a definitive account of why the Rising took place and is an extremely important contribution to the history of the Second World War.

This book, based on a detailed knowledge of the sources, traces the nineteenth-century origins of the Liberation Movement (also known as the Liberal Movement), the social and historical conditions which led to its formation in the first years of the twentieth century, its policies, influence, initial success and ultimate failure.

A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of communication between the government and Bolshevik party on the one hand, and the Russian intelligentsia on the other.