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The Overambitious First Soviet Five-Year Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Holland Hunter
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Slavic Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 237 - 257
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1973

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References

1. For a lucid introduction to input-output analysis see Chenery, Hollis B. and Clark, Paul G., Interindustry Economics (New York, 1959).Google Scholar

2. For a detailed review of the period see Jasny, Naum, Soviet Industrialisation, 1928-1952 (Chicago, 1961)Google Scholar, and Alec, Nove, An Economic History of the U.S.S.R. (London and Baltimore, 1969)Google Scholar.

3. The record is analyzed in Holland, Hunter, Soviet Transportation Policy (Cambridge, Mass., 1957).Google Scholar

4. See my “Priorities and Shortfalls in Prewar Soviet Planning,” in Jane, Degras and Alec, Nove, eds., Soviet Planning : Essays in Honour of Naum Jasny (Oxford, 1964), pp. 1–31.Google Scholar

5. International Business Machines, Introduction to Linear Programming (White Plains, N.Y., 1964)Google Scholar. For a definitive treatise see Dantzig, George B., Linear Programming and Extensions (Princeton, 1963).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6. The pioneering model for testing an economy-wide development plan was formulated and applied to India by Eckaus, Richard S. and Parikh, Kirit S.; see their Planning for Growth (Cambridge, Mass., 1968)Google Scholar.

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