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Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries

New Data and Inferences

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
  2. Introduction

    • Masaaki Kuboniwa, Kazuhiro Kumo
    Pages 1-41
  3. Population

    • Kazuhiro Kumo
    Pages 59-103
  4. Labor

    • Yoshisada Shida, Kazuhiro Kumo, Yasushi Nakamura
    Pages 105-132
  5. Agriculture

    • Manabu Suhara
    Pages 133-181
  6. Industry

    • Manabu Suhara
    Pages 183-220
  7. Money and Finance

    • Yasushi Nakamura
    Pages 221-249
  8. State Budget

    • Shinichiro Tabata, Tomoko Tabata
    Pages 251-289
  9. Foreign Trade

    • Akira Uegaki
    Pages 291-315
  10. Supplement: Soviet Foreign Trade Earnings Revisited

    • Masaaki Kuboniwa, Shinichiro Tabata, Yasushi Nakamura
    Pages 317-333
  11. Gross Domestic Products

    • Masaaki Kuboniwa, Yoshisada Shida, Shinichiro Tabata
    Pages 335-419
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 439-443

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Japan

    Masaaki Kuboniwa, Kazuhiro Kumo

  • Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

    Yasushi Nakamura

  • Research Division, The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata, Japan

    Yoshisada Shida

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

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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