What's New
Davies and Ilič on the Soviet Economy in the Thirties and Fifties
Two new papers in the PERSA series are "Prices, Costs and Finance in the Soviet Union, 1933-1939: A survey" (No. 60, by R. W. Davies) and "From Khrushchev (1935-6) to Khrushchev (1956-64): Construction Policy Compared" (No. 61, by R. W. Davies and Melanie Ilič)
Gregory and Zhou on How China Won and Russia Lost
Paul Gregory (Houston and Hoover), a leading researcher in Stalin's archives, and Kate Zhou (Hawaii), a specialist in Chinese affairs, have joined forces to consider "How China Won and Russia Lost"
Service on Trotsky
Robert Service's Trotsky: A Biography has been published in the United Kingdom in October by Pan Macmillan and in the United States in November by Harvard University Press
Harrison on the Lithuania KGB and Counter-Terrorism
"Counter-Terrorism in a Police State: The KGB and Codename Blaster, 1977," by Mark Harrison, is No. 59 in the PERSA series ...
Belova and Lazarev on Party Justice under Stalin
"Selective Justice: Party Control under Stalin," by Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev, is No. 58 in the PERSA series ...