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Robert C. Allen. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 301 pp. ISBN 0-691-00696-2, $45.00 (cloth).
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In this collection of concisely argued essays, Robert C. Allen reexamines several important questions familiar to anyone interested in Soviet history: the hypothetical development of Russia in the absence of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; the standing of Russias and the Soviet Unions economic and demographic development in relation to other countries; the controversy surrounding the strategy for economic development after the revolution; the reasons for Stalins rapid industrialization and the role of the agricultural sector in it; and
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