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Soviet Industrialization: A Remarkable Success?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Michael Ellman
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Slavic Review , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , Winter 2004 , pp. 841 - 849
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2004

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