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Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. By Robert C. Allen. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Edited by, Joel Mokyr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+302. $45.00.
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues-have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich as discussed by the authors.
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Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
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Making Famine History
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Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia's National Income, 1913 to 1928
Andrei Markevich,Mark Harrison +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that the Russian economy did somewhat better in the Great War than was previously thought; in the Civil War it did correspondingly worse; war losses persisted into peacetime, and were not fully restored under the New Economic Policy.
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Aggregate and per capita GDP in Europe, 1870–2000: continental, regional and national data with changing boundaries
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