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The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialized in military production powerfully influenced the course of the 20th century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research by Russian and British scholars in the hitherto secret archives of the Soviet government, party, and armed forces, this book is a pioneering investigation of the economic dynamics and social and political significance of Soviet defence.

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...makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the Soviet defense industry. Journal of Cold War Studies

...makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature on the Soviet defense industry. Journal of Cold War Studies</p>

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JOHN BARBER is Fellow and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His books include Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932, and The Soviet Home Front, 1941-5: a Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (with Mark Harrison). MARK HARRISON is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick,. His work includes The Soviet Home Front, 1941-5: a Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II, (with John Barber), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union: 1913-1945, co-editor, Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment and the Defence Burden, 1940-45 and The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison, (editor) .

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