Davies, Robert William

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DAVIES, Robert William

DAVIES, Robert William. British, b. 1925. Genres: Economics, History, Area studies. Career: Professor of Soviet Economic Studies, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, since 1965 Research Fellow 1956-59; Lecturer 1959-62; Sr. Lecturer 1962-63; Director, 1963-79; Professor Emeritus, 1989-. Publications: The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, 1958; (with E.H. Carr) Foundations of a Planned Economy 1926-1929, vol. I, 1969; (with E. Zaleski and others) Science Policy in the U.S.S.R., 1969; The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-1930, 1980; The Soviet Collective Farm 1929-1930, 1980; The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930, 1989; Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, 1989; Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933, 1996; Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era, 1997; Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev, 1998. EDITOR: (co-) The Technological Level of Soviet Industry, 1977; The Soviet Union, 1978, 1989; Soviet Investment for Planned Industrialisation 1929-37, 1984; (co-) Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy 1928-30, 1985; E.H. Carr's What Is History?, 2nd ed, 1986; From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy, 1990; (with M. Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft) The Transformation of the Soviet Economy, 1913-1945, 1993. Address: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, England.

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