Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Oregon

Wilson Center Project

Soviet Trade, Distribution, and Exchange in the 1920s: The Evolution of a Functional Economy

Project Summary

evolution of Soviet trade form the end of the civil war to the forcible closure of private stores in 1929-30 social effects of the Soviet economic experiement relationship between legal private trade under NEP and the black markets of the civil war and Stalin eras behaviours of Soviet consumers under the mixed economy of NEP versus later organization of the official sector vis-à-vis the beureaucratized distribution of the Stalin years