Postwar Soviet Research Articles

Total factor productivity in postwar Soviet industry and its branches

The Cobb-Douglas production function with a declining rate of technical change or of total factor productivity growth (TFP) emerges as the dominant model for explaining the output-growth retardation in postwar Soviet industry when two sets of output data, from Soviet sources and from the CIA, are used for estimating Cobb-Douglas and CES specifications. Rates of output growth and TFP, though low, are higher with Soviet than with CIA data. However, their relative divergence is smaller in those industrial branches where Soviet output data are not exaggerated and where the CIA sample is representative of the branch output. J. Comp. Econ., March 1985, 9(1), pp. 1–23. Columbia University, New York, New York 10027.

Recognition of Arbitration Agreements in Postwar Soviet Bilateral Treaty Practice

Recognition of Arbitration Agreements in Postwar Soviet Bilateral Treaty Practice

All Quiet on the German Front? Germany in the Post‐Detente Era

WHEN ALL ABOUT THEM IN EASTERN EUROPE WERE LOSING their heads, the Russians could always count on the East Germans. Now nobody, least of all the Russians, seems so sure. Whether or not East Germany's leader, Erich Honecker, visits West Germany this autumn as planned, the German question is back on the political agenda of both East and West. The sharp battle-by-reprint, during the summer of 1984, in the party newspapers of East Germany and the Soviet Union over the permissible degree of contact between the East German regime and the West German government has revealed in public a remarkable rift within the Warsaw Pact over one of the most sensitive issues in post-war Soviet foreign policy: strategy towards Germany.

‘I am grateful to Orwell’: On language, literature, and Lithuania

‘I am grateful to Orwell’: On language, literature, and Lithuania

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation 1946–53Werner G. Hahn Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982, pp. 243

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation 1946–53Werner G. Hahn Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982, pp. 243

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ROBERT J. YOUNG. French Foreign Policy, Nineteen Eighteen to Nineteen Forty-Five: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, ed. Christoph M. Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1981. Pp. xv, 242. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by A.S. Kanya-Forstner CHRISTOPH M. KIMMICH. German Foreign Policy, Nineteen Eighteen to Nineteen Forty Five: A Guide to Research and Research Materials. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1981. Pp. ix, 293. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener ALAN CASSELS. Italian Foreign Policy, Nineteen Eighteen to Nineteen Forty- Five: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, ed. Christoph M. Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc. 1981. Pp. xi, 271. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent VOJTECH MASTNY. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1041–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. xix, 409. $16.95 (US). Reviewed by Teddy J. Uldricks R. KEITH SCHOPPA. Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang Province in the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 280. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by J. Shrecker EDWARD M. SPIERS. Haldane: An Army Reformer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1980. Pp. vi, 240. £10.00. Reviewed by John E. Kendle IAN NISH, ed. Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919–1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 320. $37.50. Reviewed by Ray Jones JOHN C. G. RÖHL and NICOIAS SOMBART, eds. Kaiser Wilhelm II: New Interpretations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 319. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Konrad H. Jarausch ROBIN FISHER and J.M. BUMSTED, eds. An Account of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in 1785 and 1786 by Alexander Walker. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. Pp. 319. $24.95. Reviewed by Christon I. Archer ERIK P. HOFFMANN and ROBBIN F. LAIRD. The Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 215. $19.50 (US). Reviewed by Cyril E. Black WERNER G. HAHN. Postwar Soviet Politics. The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 243. $19.50 (US). Reviewed by Richard K. Debo VICTOR ROTHWELL. Britain and the Cold War, 1941–1947. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Pp. 551. £16. Reviewed by Gerald Jordan DAN P. SILVERMAN. Reconstructing Europe after the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 347. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Keith L. Nelson

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53. By Werner G. Hahn. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. xv, 224 pp. $22.50.

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A History of Post-War Soviet Writing: The Literature of Moral Opposition

A History of Post-War Soviet Writing: The Literature of Moral Opposition

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53, by Werner G. Hahn

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Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53

Journal Article Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53 Get access Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53. By Werner G. Hahn. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press. 1982. 242 pp. Index. £17.00. $29.25. Paul Dukes Paul Dukes 1University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Winter 1982, Page 117, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620197 Published: 01 January 1982

A History of Post-War Soviet Writing: The Literature of Moral Opposition. By Grigori Svirski. Translated and edited by Robert Dessaix and Michael Ulman. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1981 [originally published London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1979, under the title Na lobnom meste]. 456 pp. Photographs. Paper.

A History of Post-War Soviet Writing: The Literature of Moral Opposition. By Grigori Svirski. Translated and edited by Robert Dessaix and Michael Ulman. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1981 [originally published London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1979, under the title Na lobnom meste]. 456 pp. Photographs. Paper. - Volume 41 Issue 4

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53

ON RECONSTRUCTING PRICE, OUTPUT AND VALUE‐ADDED INDEXES IN POSTWAR SOVIET INDUSTRY AND ITS BRANCHES*

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and StatisticsVolume 40, Issue 1 p. 55-77 ON RECONSTRUCTING PRICE, OUTPUT AND VALUE-ADDED INDEXES IN POSTWAR SOVIET INDUSTRY AND ITS BRANCHES† PADMA DESAI, PADMA DESAI 2Research Associate, Russian Research Center, Harvard University and Visiting Professor, Boston University.Search for more papers by this author PADMA DESAI, PADMA DESAI 2Research Associate, Russian Research Center, Harvard University and Visiting Professor, Boston University.Search for more papers by this author First published: February 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.1978.mp40001005.xCitations: 3 † 1Research on this paper was financed by National Science Foundation grant no. SOC 77–07254. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume40, Issue1February 1978Pages 55-77 RelatedInformation

U.S. History and Historiography in Post-War Soviet Writings, 1945-1970: A Bibliography.

U.S. History and Historiography in Post-War Soviet Writings, 1945-1970: A Bibliography.

The Impact of Adjusted Factor Cost Valuation on the CES Interpretation of Postwar Soviet Economic Growth

Assessing the determinants of Soviet postwar economic growth has proven to be an enticing but elusive pursuit. Various aggregate production function studies carried out with both official Soviet and Western data have yielded results that raise as many questions as they clarify (principally Weitzman, 1970, subsequent comments on his study, and the studies of Desai, 1976, and Gomulka, 1974). In addition to sundry interpretive difficulties of a purely technical sort, deep problems of valuation continue to obscure the analytic significance of any parametric estimation of postwar Soviet economic growth. This paper seeks to illuminate these issues by testing the CES specification of Soviet growth in adjusted factor cost prices, which more closely approximate the neoclassical opportunity cost norm than do valuation schema employed in previous studies. A two-step estimation technique is utilized for estimation purposes, the results of which reveal that the rate of neutral technical change has been greater, and the degree of capital utilization less, than formerly supposed, while the elasticity of substitution remains essentially unchanged from the already low estimates reported by others for this important parameter. Moreover, in the broader perspective of Soviet economic development, our analysis suggests that the Soviets may be more firmly shackled to their traditional growth model than recent scholarly speculation indicates. Before proceeding to a detailed consideration of postwar Soviet growth valued in adjusted factor cost prices, however, fundamental problems of aggregation raised by the peculiar nature of Soviet price formation must be addressed.

Execution of Foreign Commercial Awards in Post-War Soviet Bilateral Treaty Practice

In 1945, H. J. Hilton, Jr., published an excellent article in the Department of State Bulletin entitled “Commercial Arbitration in the Treaties and Agreements of the U.S.S.R.” which assessed the Soviet record in this area up to the end of the Second World War. The purpose of the present study is to carry the inquiry forward to the present, concentrating, however, exclusively on the problem of execution of foreign commercial arbitral awards in Soviet bilateral treaty practice during this period.Before proceeding though, a quick review of the salient points of Mr. Hilton’s survey will furnish useful background information.First, in analyzing the corpus of Soviet treaties and agreements that feature statements concerning arbitration of commercial disputes, the author found that, while the relevant provisions ranged in detail from a single phrase to comprehensive conventions containing as many as 15 articles, the data did not reveal a pattern of historic evolution in the type of formulas regarding arbitration. In other words, although the Soviet regime passed through several phases of development between 1921, when such a reference initially appeared in a treaty signed by the R.S.F.S.R., and 1945, this did not entail technical changes reflecting specific policy shifts; the various approaches used recur throughout the span of observation without any determinable regularity and no correlation could be fixed between the choice of a particular solution and the prevailing conditions at home or abroad at a given juncture. The conclusion here, then, was that “the provisions referring to arbitration included in the treaties and agreements of the U.S.S.R. vary considerably in content; however, these variations cannot be established precisely by periods of time.”

Soviet Aquatic Bacteriology: A Review of the Past Decade

The importance of bacteria in oceans and lakes is slowly gaining recognition. The post-war Soviet on the Black Sea have led to the development of techniques which are being used in the complex studies being conducted on virtually all major water bodies of the world. These investigations, which are primarily concerned with the productivity of water basins, have led to some very interesting observations from pole to pole. Included are such as the bacterial development in the region of the North Pole, chemosynthesis in water reservoirs, and the use of bacteria as hydrological indicators of Antarctic water masses. The purpose of this review is to draw attention to and discuss the nature and extent of Soviet work in aquatic bacteriology.

Soviet Policy Toward Under-Developed Areas in the Economic and Social Council

The increasing manifestations of Soviet interest in the United Nations Technical Assistance Program and in the establishment of a Soviet “Point Four” program for the under-developed, non-Communist countries of southeast Asia are of crucial importance to the west. In great measure the ultimate defense of western civilization lies in its ability to guide the surging flow of Asian nationalism into constructive, stable and satisfying channels of economic, social and political reforms. Soviet interest in under-developed areas is not new, but since the death of Stalin, a precipitant and ingenious reversal of tactics has occurred. Nowhere has this interest been more evident than in the Economic and Social Council and in its subsidiary bodies. Though the changed Soviet tactics in no way signify a modification of the long term objectives of Soviet strategy, they do demand a corresponding flexibility and imaginativeness on the part of western diplomacy. By understanding past Soviet behavior, acquiring an accurate knowledge of early postwar Soviet policy toward underdeveloped areas, and investigating the rationale behind that policy, the direction and intensity of present Soviet policy may be better analyzed and viewed in its proper perspective.