Also look into the books be R. W. Davies and Stephen Wheatcroft.
Yeah they are high on my list.
For anyone who would like to learn about this topic, but is not looking for a deep technical dive: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Socialism_betrayed:behind_the_collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union(2004)
In August, we finally got an official English translation of Losurdo’s Stalin book. I feel like reading that and then Socialism Betrayed would be a great 1-2 combo (even if the Losurdo book isn’t really about Stalin’s economy).
I just started Losurdo's Stalin book last weekend. Looking at the table of contents, it doesn't include a lot of information focused on the fine details of the Soviet economy, even if it has the same level of detail as "Socialism Betrayed" I'll be learning something.
For the Soviet economy under Stalin, there's a recent Russian economics book called Growth Crystal that deals with it. The full thing hasn't been translated into English, but a PDF summary has:
https://crystalbook.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/growth-crystal-ENG.pdf
The full version of the book in Russian is available for free on the website too.
Even if you claim that a lot of the arguments from the book were too uncritical about Stalin, the nice thing about this book is that a lot of the primary sources referenced can be directly accessible through istmat.org (short for Historical Materialism), a website run by volunteers dedicated to digitizing materials from the Soviet archive (by the way, the guy who started the project was a communist who went to fight in the DPR until he was killed in a car accident in 2020).
You can actually cross-reference with the data from the Soviet archive, which I think is pretty cool. I’ve dug out a few reports to verify a couple of the claims, but I can only wish that my Russian is good enough to be able to utilize the full potential of such wealth of materials and information.
This Growth Crystal summary is great, pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Hope the full book gets translated into English one day, though.
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