I'd recommend Ellman's Socialist Planning for a relatively detailed (if ugly) introduction to the topic. For a more in-depth reading, Alexander Nove wrote a number of excellent (if equally difficult) works on the subject
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I want to know exactly how the soviet economy worked, how it was developed, etc. Anything I can read online?
I find it interesting that they were able to develop and industrialize in such a short period of time. Does this mean that using the soviet model can develop other third world countries? How did they do it?
I'd recommend Ellman's Socialist Planning for a relatively detailed (if ugly) introduction to the topic. For a more in-depth reading, Alexander Nove wrote a number of excellent (if equally difficult) works on the subject
March at the head of the ideas of your century and those ideas will follow and sustain you. March behind them and they will drag you along. March against them and they will overthrow you.
Napoleon III
When you rely upon western capitalists to provide financing and knowledge, and you provide the slave labor, you too can create a socialist panacea...
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