Overview
- Provides reliable and concise economic statistics for Russia and the Soviet Union for the last 300 years
- Allows a quantitative exploration of the impact that the socialist economy had on Russia
- Offers a wide range of scholars' internationally comparable statistics to explain the Russian economic history
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This book aims to provide a comprehensive statistical picture of the Russian economic development covering the Imperial, Soviet, and New Russian periods. The authors have reconstructed Russian socio-economic statistics from both published and archival materials. The book gives concise descriptions as well as new insights on the Russian economic development. Compiled such that estimations by the authors are kept to a minimum and extensive explanations and notes on the sources, the definitions, the statistical methodologies, the problems and inconsistencies of the original data, and the pitfalls of interpreting the time series are given makes this a standard reference book of the Russian economic history. It will be of value to economists, scholars of collectivist economics, and scholars of Russia and the Soviet experience.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Masaaki Kuboniwa is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Peace and Strategic Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Yasushi Nakamura is Director at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Asia, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan and author of Soviet Monetary Policy in the Soviet Union published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.
Kazuhiro Kumo is Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and author of Demography of Russia published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.
Yoshisada Shida is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Research Division, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries
Book Subtitle: New Data and Inferences
Editors: Masaaki Kuboniwa, Yasushi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Kumo, Yoshisada Shida
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8429-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8428-8Published: 18 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8431-8Published: 18 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8429-5Published: 04 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 443
Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Economics, Economic History, Asian Economics, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance