Robert William Davies
Encyclopedia
Robert William "Bob" Davies, best known as "R.W. Davies," is professor emeritus of Soviet Economic Studies, University of Birmingham
.
His research contributions in the history of the Soviet Union
are recognized by the peers.
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
.
His research contributions in the history of the Soviet Union
History of the Soviet Union
The history of the Soviet Union has roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, emerged as the main political force in the capital of the former Russian Empire, though they had to fight a long and brutal civil war against the Mensheviks, or Whites...
are recognized by the peers.
Books
- Soviet history in the Yeltsin Era, 1997
- Soviet history in the Gorbachev revolution, 1989, ISBN -253-31604-9
- Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev, 1998, ISBN 0521-62260-3
- Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy (1931–1933), 1996
- (compiled and edited by R.W. Davies) The Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence, 1931–1936, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0300093675
- (with Mark Harrison, S. G. Wheatcroft) The Economic transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913–1945, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0521-45152-3
- (edited by S. G. Wheatcroft, Robert William Davies) Materials for a balance of the Soviet national economy, 1928–1930
- (with Denis J. B. Shaw) The Soviet Union, Unwin Hyman, 1989, ISBN 0044452055
- The Soviet Collective Farm 1929 - 1930 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980)
- The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–33 by R.W. Davies and S.G. Wheatcroft, 2004
- The Soviet economy in turmoil, 1929–1930 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 1989)