Should-Read: Joachim Voth and I both focused on how Tsarist industrialization was hindered by monopoly power in manufacturing, and on the absence of a special bonus for the Stalinist construction of a heavy industrial sector in Magnitogorsk and elsewhere very far in the interior. The destruction of monopoly power via planning–along with the destruction of … Continue reading Should-Read: Anton Cheremukhin et al. (2013): Was Stalin Necessary for Russia’s Economic Development?