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The First Five-Year Plan, Stalinism, and the Fate of Marxist Political Economy in the USSR

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by Véronique Mickisch For most, Marxist political economy is synonymous with planning. Perhaps no planning experiment has been associated as closely with Marxist economics as the First Five-Year Plan, initiated in 1928. This can be explained, at least in part, by the immense material changes it brought about within the Soviet Union. According to Robert C. Allen, the urban population doubled between 1928 and 1940, and literacy rates more than dou…
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JHI Blog broke the news in on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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