Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017
Steven Rosefielde’s article has two objectives: first, to display the major features and the “revolutionary implications” for Soviet economic history of evidence provided in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago; second, to devise “a coherent and consistent countertheory to the prevailing interpretation of Soviet industrialization.” In pursuit of these objectives, he initiates “a complete reconsideration of the causes and consequences of the First Five-Year Plan.”
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8. See the discussion below and in Appendix 2 for a fuller account of the importance of this category.
9. Rosefielde, “An Assessment.”