Böcker av Paul R. Gregory

Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin's most prominent victims: Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.

In Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Paul R. Gregory takes an inside look at how the system worked and why it has traditionally been so resistant to change. Gregory's findings shed light on a bureaucracy that was widely considered the greatest threat to Gorbachev's efforts at perestroika, or restructuring.

This book presents estimates of the growth of the tsarist economy during the 'industrialization era', 1885-1913. Comparisons are made with the performance of Soviet Russia during the plan era and of other industrialized countries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.

Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.

The stories of five very different women who endured Stalin s Gulag from a peasant girl sent to a remote Ural special settlement to the fearful teenage sister-in-law of a high party official. The five firsthand stories presented in this book shed much-needed light on the little-known women victims of the Gulag, Stalin s vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, and reveal just how far-reaching and frightening the specter of the Gulag was. In vivid detail, Paul Gregory brings to life the stories of five women whose lives were torn apart by the Gulag system, illustrating how even the wrong word or the wrong husband or father could constitute a crime against the state. In recounting these stories, he reveals that, although some of the imprisoned and executed were of the political elite, the majority of Gulag victims were ordinary people, leading ordinary lives. Drawing from the Soviet archives that were opened in the 1990s and personal, handwritten, or typed accounts that have been hidden away for decades, Gregory takes us on five separate journeys of fear, betrayal, hardship, and survival. These personal stories reveal the particular punishments reserved for women, such as sexual enslavement, and describe the difficulty the four surviving women had in adjusting to a post-Gulag life. Woven throughout the narratives are real-life accounts of Stalin and his henchmen as they drafted their draconian decrees."

Offering an approach that synthesizes history and economics, this book develops explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. It draws on archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo, and state security agencies themselves.