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Valueless Goods and Social Bads in the Measurement of Soviet Output Series, 1928-1932

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Extract

Professor Rosefielde has supplied a controversial reassessment of the First Five- Year Plan. My comments will perhaps be disappointingly narrow, for I shall not comment on Rosefielde’s claim that the growth of heavy industry during the First Five-Year Plan was based to a surprising degree on the expansion of the GULag economy. This assertion ultimately depends upon Rosefielde’s estimates of the GULag labor force. Other participants in this forum, or readers of Soviet Studies, may choose to challenge Rosefielde, but this is a topic well out of my area of expertise.

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1980

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