American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War
American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War

Author: Philip J. Funigiello

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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This study brings a valuable perspective to the important issue of Cold War politics on American Soviet trade policy over the past forty years. Generally, American presidents from Truman through Reagan have been more sophisticated than Congress or the public in their approach to trade policies with the USSR and the Communist bloc. The author is particularly critical of Congress, where anti-Communist sentiment resulted in restrictive trade measures that limited the Executive's flexibility in economic policy. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

A Social History of Soviet Trade
A Social History of Soviet Trade

Author: Julie Hessler

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1400843561

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In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. The book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises. Although Soviet leaders, and above all, Stalin, identified socialism with the modernization of retailing and the elimination of most private transactions, these goals conflicted with the economic dynamics that produced shortages and with the government's bureaucratic, repressive, and socially discriminatory political culture. A Social History of Soviet Trade explores the relationship of trade--official and unofficial--to the cyclical pattern of crisis and normalization that resulted from these tensions. It also provides a singularly detailed look at private shops during the years of the New Economic Policy, and at the remnants of private trade, mostly concentrated at the outdoor bazaars, in subsequent years. Drawing on newly opened archives in Moscow and several provinces, this richly documented work offers a new perspective on the social, economic, and political history of the formative decades of the USSR.

Trading with the Bolsheviks
Trading with the Bolsheviks

Author: Andrew J. Williams

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719033308

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The aims of this work are to examine the political, economic, financial and normative reasoning used by the governments and key departments of state of the three main victors of the First World War - the United States, Britain and France - in their decision-making on the question of whether or not to trade with the Soviet Union in the inter-war years; and to put the debate about Russian trade within these countries into the wider context of the domestic political and economic problems facing them and, in particular, to examine how the economic legacy of the Revolution, especially the denunciation of all Czarist-era debts to the West and the confiscation of Western property in the Soviet Union, as well as the question of concessions, discussion of which parallelled the debate on trade.

A Social History of Soviet Trade
A Social History of Soviet Trade

Author: Julie Hessler

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2004-02-22

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780691114927

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"Drawing on newly opened archives in Moscow and several provinces, this documented work offers a new perspective on the social, economic, and political history of the formative decades of the USSR."--BOOK JACKET