Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: assistance, which included making her data and working papers freely available to me; without this generous sharing of many years ’ work, the present article could not have been written. I thank Melanie Brown for her prompt and accurate translation from Hungarian, and my colleagues Nick Crafts, Jeff Round and Mark Stewart for helpful advice. This research is supported financially by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust towards research on “Soviet production, employment and the defence burden, 1937 and 1940-1945”. I am responsible for remaining errors of fact and interpretation. GDPs of the USSR and Eastern Europe:Towards an Interwar Comparison In 1931 Stalin fixed the scale of the development lag between the USSR and the West: “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries”.1 These figures were chosen for effect, of course, not for their scholarly precision. For many purposes it would be good to put a more scientifically founded figure on the extent to which the interwar economies of the USSR and Eastern Europe lagged behind West European benchmarks. Such information is required for an analysis of the
Source: Europe Asia Studies
Author: Mark Harrison
Institution: University of Warwick
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
OpenAlex ID: W2113821644