• Aalders, Gerard, and Cees Wiebes. 1996. The Art of Cloaking Ownership. The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden. Amsterdam University Press. Date of Review: August 1996. For the Business History Review.
• Allen, Robert C. 2003. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton University Press. Date of Review: April 2004. For the Russian Review.
• Babichenko, Denis. 2020. The Debit and Сredit оf War, or How Stalin Made a Trillion Dollars: The Unknown Economic History of the USSR before, during and after World War II (1940–1953). Date of Review: December 2020. For EH.net.
• Barnett, Vincent. 2004. The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940: Ideas, Debates and Alternatives. Routledge. Date of Review: April 2005. For the Economic History Review.
• Bellamy, Chris. 2007. Absolute War. Soviet Russia in the Second World War. Macmillan, 2007. Date of Review: December 2007. For the Times Literary Supplement.
• Braithwaite, Rodric. 2006. Moscow 1941: A City and Its People At War. Alfred A. Knopf. Date of Review: July 2007. For the Slavic Review.
• Collingham, Lizzie. 2010. The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food. London: Allen Lane. Date of Review: April 2011. For the Times Literary Supplement.
• Davies, R. W. 1996. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, volume 4. Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933. Macmillan Press. Date of Review: November 1996. For the Russian Review.
• Davies, R. W., Oleg V. Khlevniuk, E. A. Rees, Liudmila P. Kosheleva, and Larisa A. Rogovaya, eds. 2003. The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36. Yale University Press. Date of Review: January 2004. For the Economic History Review.
• Davies, R. W., and S. G. Wheatcroft, 2004. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, volume 5. The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933. Palgrave Macmillan. Date of Review: March 2005. For the Economic History Review.
• Domar, Evsey D. 1989. Capitalism, Socialism and Serfdom. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: June 1990. For the Slavonic and East European Review.
• Dunn, Walter S. 1995. The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945. Praeger. Date of Review: March 1996. For Europe-Asia Studies.
• Ericson, Edward E. 1999. Feeding the German Eagle: Soviet Economic Aid to Nazi Germany, 1933–1941. Praeger. Date of Review: June 2000. For the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.
• Filtzer, Donald. 2010. The Hazards of Urban Life In Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: February 2011. For the Journal of Economic History.
• Gatrell, Peter. 1994. Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: the Last Argument of Tsarism. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: June 1994. For Europe-Asia Studies.
• Gerovitch, Slava. 2002. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. MIT Press. Date of Review: September 2002. For Russian Review.
• Goldman, Wendy Z. 2002. Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: July 2002. For the Business History Review.
• Gorbachev, Mikhail. 2016. The New Russia. Translated by Arch Tait. Polity Press: Cambridge, England, and Malden, Mass. Date of Review: July 2017. For the Journal of Modern History.
• Grant, Wyn, Jan Nekkers, and Frans van Waarden, eds. 1992. Organising Business for War: Corporatist Economic Organisation During the Second World War. Berg Publishers. Date of Review: May 1992. For the Business History Review.
• Gregory, Paul R. 1990. Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: February 1991. For Soviet Studies.
• Gregory, Paul R. 2003. The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: June 2004. For EH.net.
• Gregory, Paul R., and Valery Lazarev, eds. 2003. The Economics of Forced Labor: the Soviet Gulag. Hoover Institution Press. Date of Review: June 2004. For EH.net.
• Hale-Dorrell, Aaron. 2018. Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Date of review: September 2019. For the Economic History Review.
• Harris, James R. 1999. The Great Urals: regionalism and the evolution of the Soviet system. Cornell University Press. Date of Review: April 2000. For the Economic History Review.
• Haynes, Michael, and Rumy Husan. 2003. A Century of State Murder: Death and Policy in Twentieth Century Russia. Pluto. Date of Review: February 2004. For Revolutionary Russia.
• Hessler, Julie. 2004. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. Princeton University Press. Date of Review: July 2004. For the Slavic Review.
• Huff, Greg. 2020. World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Date of review: June 2023. For War in History.
• Hughes, James. 1996. Stalinism in a Russian Province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia. Macmillan Press. Date of Review: March 1997. For Europe-Asia Studies.
• Hunter, Holland, and Janusz M. Szyrmer. 1992. Faulty Foundations: Soviet economic policies, 1928-1940. Princeton University Press. Date of Review: October 1992. For the Economic History Review.
• Johnson, Juliet. 2000. A Fistful of Dollars: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System. Cornell University Press. Date of Review: April 2001. For the Business History Review.
• Kay, Alex J. 2006. Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941. Berghahn Books. Date of Review: August 2008. For the American Historical Review.
• Khanin, G. I. 1992. Sovetskii ekonomicheskii rost: analiz zapadnykh otsenok [Soviet economic growth: an analysis of western evaluations]. EKOR. Date of Review: November 1994. For the Economic Journal.
• Khlevniuk, Oleg V. 1995. In Stalin’s shadow: the career of “Sergo” Ordzhonikidze. M.E. Sharpe. Date of Review: March 1997. For Slavonica.
• Kragh, Martin. 2009. Exit and Voice Dynamics: An Empirical Study of the Soviet Labour Market, 1940-1960s, Stockholm: Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics. Date of Review: April 2010. For the Scandinavian Journal of Economic History.
• Krueger, Alan B. 2007. What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism. Princeton University Press. Date of Review: September 2007. For The Times Higher Education Supplement.
• Liberman, Peter. 1996. Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies. Princeton University Press. Date of review: January 1997. For the Economic History Review.
• Mawdsley, Evan. 2007. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945. Hodder Education. Date of Review: September 2007. For Europe-Asia Studies.
• McMeekin, Sean. 2009. History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. Yale University Press. Date of Review: March 2009. For Slavic Review.
• Miller, Chris. 2016.The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill. Date of Review: July 2017. For the Journal of Modern History.
• Mulder, Nicholas. 2022. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2022. Date of review: April 2023. For the Economic History Review.
• Nove, Alec. 1992. An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991. New and final edition. Pelican. Date of Review: June 1993. For the Economic Journal.
• Overy, Richard J. 1994. War and economy in the Third Reich. Clarendon Press. Date of Review: April 1994. For the Economic History Review.
• Palmer, Scott W. 2006. Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: July 2007. For The Historian.
• Peden, G. C. 2007. Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: September 2008. For EH.net.
• Pine, Lisa, ed. 2023. Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th Century Europe. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Date of review: July 2023. For the Journal of Cold War Studies.
• Pucci, Molly. 2020. Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT. Date of Review: November 2020. For Cold War History.
• Rees, E. A. 1995. Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928-1941. Macmillan, St Martin's Press. Date of Review: June 1995. For Slavonica.
• Resnick, Stephen A., and Richard D. Wolff. 2002. Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR. Routledge. Date of Review: January 2003. For EH.net.
• Rittersporn, Gabor T. 2014. Anguish, Anger and Folkways in Soviet Russia. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA. Date of Review: October 2016. For Cahiers du monde Russe.
• Rosenberg, William G., and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, eds. 1993. Social dimensions of Soviet industrialization. Indiana University Press. Date of Review: September 1993. For the Journal of Economic History.
• Samuelson, Lennart. 2000. Plans for Stalin’s War Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941. Macmillan Press. Date of Review: March 2000. For Europe-Asia Studies.
• Samuelson, Lennart. 2011. Tankograd. The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s. Palgrave Macmillan. Date of Review: January 2012. For Slavic Review.
• Sergi, Bruno S. 2004. Communist Economics in Russia. Akadimiai Kiado. Date of Review: August 2005. For the Journal of Economic History.
• Smith, Mark B. 2010. Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev. Northern Illinois University Press. Date of Review: November 2010. For Russian Review.
• Sylla, Richard and Toniolo, Gianni, eds. 1992. Patterns of European Industrialization: the nineteenth century. Routledge. Date of Review: August 1993. For the Slavonic and East European Review.
• Weiner, Amir. 2001. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton University Press. Date of Review: September 2003. For H-Russia.
• Zatlin, Jonathan R. 2007. The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press. Date of Review: January 2008. For the Journal of Economic History.

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