R W Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 387483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2252-0862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Comparative analysis of machine learning versus traditional method for early detection of parental depression symptoms in the Nicu
Logistic regression is effective in identifying parents at risk of depression for targeted screening with a performance comparable to common ML-based models
The Anatomy of Terror
Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932 – 33
This Reply, while confirming that Stalin's policies were ruthless and brutal, shows that there are no serious grounds for Ellman's view that Stalin pursued a conscious policy of starvation of the peasants during the famine. It also rejects Ellman's claim that in their recent book [Davies and Wheatcroft (the authors neglect Soviet policy and leadership perceptions in their account of the famine
Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-1944
From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society. This book examines the nature and consequences of the extreme conditions created by the German blocka
Closing the “Bergson Gap”
Over fifty years ago, Abram Bergson, Janet Chapman, and others sought to assess the large gap in Soviet statistics between the published wage bill and the full wage bill; and Frank Lorimer drew attention to the related gap between the employment data in the 1939 population census and in the annual employment returns. Soviet archives which have recently been declassified reveal the considerable extent to which the findings of the Western authors w…
Stakhanovism and the Soviet Economy
(2002). Stakhanovism and the Soviet Economy. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 867-903
The End of Rationing in the Soviet Union, 1934-1935
The authors are grateful to Nirmal Chandra, Mark larrison, Julie IHessler and Stephen Wheatcroft, and to Vincent Barnett, Arfon Rees, Ian Thatcher and other members of the Soviet Industrialisation Project Seminar (SIPS) of the University of Birmingham for valuable comments, and to Derek Watson for his assistance. This research was assisted by grants no. R000237388 and R000235636 from the British Economic and Social Research Council. The material …
Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era
Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era
Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance. The author of the acclaimed Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution now examines the impact of the collapse of Communism and of th
The Soviet military‐economic effort during the second five‐year plan (1933–1937)
In our paper we aim to show the changing economic significance of defence outlays in \nthe period of the second five-year plan (1933-7).1 This period emerges as a time of \ntransition. Rapid rearmament had been begun during the first five-year plan (1928-32), \nbut from a very low base. In terms of the rising volume of activity, the following period \nwas less hectic. However, it was a period of exceptionally rapid change in military \ntechnology…
Magnetic Mountain
Reply to Robert Conquest
1. Regarding Conquest’s pre-perestroika estimates of excess deaths in the 1930s, in The Great Terror Conquest estimated that 3,500,000 people died during collectivization, 3,500,000 in the camps up to 1936, two million in the camps in 1937–38, and that in addition there were one million executions. These
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. DAVIES R. W. DAVIES University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1339–1341, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1339 Published: 01 November 1996
Before Command
Lowe on Conditionals
Forced Labour Under Stalin
The forced-labour system was developed on a mass scale in the early 1930s, and expanded remorselessly until Stalin’s death in 1953. At first the Soviet press gave it a certain amount of publicity—albeit very selective. In 1931–33 the construction of the White Sea canal by prison labour was
Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933
Most western and all Soviet studies of the Stalinist economy have ignored the role played by the stockpiling of grain in the agricultural crisis of the early 1930s. Thus in his major work on Stalinist agriculture published in 1949, Naum Jasny frankly admitted that data were insufficient to reach a conclusion, merely noting that "stocks from former years probably declined during 1932." Baykov, Dobb, Volin and Nove said nothing about grain stocks. …
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access R. W. DAVIES R. W. DAVIES University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 430, February 1994, Page 241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.430.241 Published: 01 February 1994
From Tsarism to the New Economic System
Soviet military expenditure and the armaments industry, 1929–33
development of the armaments industries' in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-40 some official figures had been published for armaments industry production, and for investment in the armaments industry; these proved compatible with the unpublished 1941 plan, acquired by the Americans from the Germans at the end of the war.2 But for the years before 1937 the only available series showed (in current prices) the expenditure of the state budget on the Peo…
From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy
Part 1 From tsarism to NEP, R.W.Davies: quantitative comparison by sectors the economic structures the processes of industrialization compared two systems in crisis - tsarism, NEP. Part 2 The social background: the social context, Maureen Perrie and R.W.Davies the socio-economic differentiation of the peasantry, Stephan Merl unemployment, J.C.Shapiro. Part 3 Agriculture and the economy: agriculture, S.G.Wheatcroft the peasantry and industrializat…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access R. W. DAVIES R. W. DAVIES University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Page 1053, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1053 Published: 01 October 1991
The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia. Vol. 3
Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution
The Generation of Power
Dneprostroi, a dam and power plant that was one of the most monumental construction projects of the Bolshevik's First Five Year Plan, was a milestone in American-Soviet co-operation. As the largest earth dam in Europe in the 1930s, it represented the first of the giant projects so favoured by Stalin. Anne Rassweiler's informative history of this project reveals new aspects of the struggle between Trotsky and Stalin, the debate on the use of forei…
What is History?
Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933
Most western and all Soviet studies of the Stalinist economy have ignored the role played by the stockpiling of grain in the agricultural crisis of the early 1930s. Thus in his major work on Stalinist agriculture published in 1949, Naum Jasny frankly admitted that data were insufficient to reach a conclusion, merely noting that "stocks from former years probably declined during 1932." Baykov, Dobb, Volin and Nove said nothing about grain stocks. …
The Soviet military‐economic effort during the second five‐year plan (1933–1937)
In our paper we aim to show the changing economic significance of defence outlays in \nthe period of the second five-year plan (1933-7).1 This period emerges as a time of \ntransition. Rapid rearmament had been begun during the first five-year plan (1928-32), \nbut from a very low base. In terms of the rising volume of activity, the following period \nwas less hectic. However, it was a period of exceptionally rapid change in military \ntechnology…
Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR
The Syrtsov‐Lominadze affair
The Training Grounds of the Roman Cavalry
Soviet military expenditure and the armaments industry, 1929–33
development of the armaments industries' in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-40 some official figures had been published for armaments industry production, and for investment in the armaments industry; these proved compatible with the unpublished 1941 plan, acquired by the Americans from the Germans at the end of the war.2 But for the years before 1937 the only available series showed (in current prices) the expenditure of the state budget on the Peo…
The Socialist Market
The discussions surveyed here took place between June 1932 and March 1933, mainly in the columns ofZa industrializatsiiu, the official newspaper of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom). A number of contributors, headed by M. I. Birbraer, a prominent member of the newspaper staff, advocated major changes in the economic mechanism. Dozens of officials, managers, economists, and journalists from industry, trade, and finance …
Economic Analysis of the Soviet-Type System
Journal Article THORNTON (J.). Economic Analysis of the Soviet-Type System Get access Economic Analysis of the Soviet-Type System. By J. Thornton. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 371£12.50.) R. W. Davies R. W. Davies Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 346, 1 June 1977, Pages 37…
Stakhanovism and the Soviet Economy
(2002). Stakhanovism and the Soviet Economy. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 867-903
The End of Rationing in the Soviet Union, 1934-1935
The authors are grateful to Nirmal Chandra, Mark larrison, Julie IHessler and Stephen Wheatcroft, and to Vincent Barnett, Arfon Rees, Ian Thatcher and other members of the Soviet Industrialisation Project Seminar (SIPS) of the University of Birmingham for valuable comments, and to Derek Watson for his assistance. This research was assisted by grants no. R000237388 and R000235636 from the British Economic and Social Research Council. The material …
Magnetic Mountain
Technology and Communist Culture
A note on defence aspects of the Ural‐Kuznetsk combine
A note on grain statistics
IN his stimulating article in Soviet Studies, vol. XVIII, no. 4 (April 1967), pp. 399-434, Professor Karcz carefully examines the well-known comparison of prewar and postwar grain production made by Stalin on 28 May 1928. The table cited by Stalin, which was supplied by Nemchinov, purports to show that in 1926/27 'commodity grain (extra-rural)' amounted to 630omillion poods (10-3 million tons) or 13.3% of the total grain harvest, against a 'prewa…
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy
Part 1 From tsarism to NEP, R.W.Davies: quantitative comparison by sectors the economic structures the processes of industrialization compared two systems in crisis - tsarism, NEP. Part 2 The social background: the social context, Maureen Perrie and R.W.Davies the socio-economic differentiation of the peasantry, Stephan Merl unemployment, J.C.Shapiro. Part 3 Agriculture and the economy: agriculture, S.G.Wheatcroft the peasantry and industrializat…
Soviet Industrialization Reconsidered
S. G. Wheatcroft, R. W. Davies, J. M. Cooper, Soviet Industrialization Reconsidered: Some Preliminary Conclusions about Economic Development between 1926 and 1941, The Economic History Review, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 264-294
Steven Rosefielde's Kliukva
Steven Rosefielde's article has two objectives: first, to display the major features and the "revolutionary implications" for Soviet economic history of evidence provided in Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; second, to devise "a coherent and consistent countertheory to the prevailing interpretation of Soviet industrialization." In pursuit of these objectives, he initiates "a complete reconsideration of the causes and consequences of the First Fiv…
Soviet Science, Technology, Design
Journal Article Soviet Science, Technology, Design: Interaction and Convergence Get access Soviet Science, Technology, Design: Interaction and Convergence. By Raymond Hutchings. London, New York: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1976. 320 pp. £12⋅00. R. W. Davies R. W. Davies 1University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 53,…
Reports and commentaries
The Anatomy of Terror
Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932 – 33
This Reply, while confirming that Stalin's policies were ruthless and brutal, shows that there are no serious grounds for Ellman's view that Stalin pursued a conscious policy of starvation of the peasants during the famine. It also rejects Ellman's claim that in their recent book [Davies and Wheatcroft (the authors neglect Soviet policy and leadership perceptions in their account of the famine
Collectivization and Its Consequences
The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization
Journal Article The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization Get access The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization. By E. A. Preobrazhensky. Edited by Donald A. Filtzer. (London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. liii + 241. £12.00.) R. W. Davies R. W. Davies Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 364, 1 December 1981, Pages 10…
Xiv. Russia in the Early Middle Ages1
Revisions in Economic History
HE problem of Russian economic development in the period from the T formation of thee Kievan state in the middle of the ninth century to the Tatar-Mongol invasion towards the middle of the thirteenth century is one on which there are widely differing views among historians. In spite of differences in detail, nearly all Russian historians in the nineteenth century shared certain basic beliefs. These were, that the development of medieval Russia wa…
Short‐term credit in reply to
(1953). Short‐term credit in reply to: The USSR: Some post‐war problems. Soviet Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 18-31
The builders’ conference
The investment‐consumption controversy
Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR
Reports and commentaries
Reports and commentaries
Reports and commentaries
Reports and commentaries
The decentralization of industry
(1958). The decentralization of industry: Some notes on the background. Soviet Studies: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 353-367
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System
Journal Article The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System Get access The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System. By R. W. Davies. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Pp. xxii + 373. 45s.) M. H. Dobb M. H. Dobb Trinity College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 69, Issue 273, 1 March 1959, Pages 162–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227846 Published: 01 Marc…
Some Soviet economic controllers—II
Some Soviet economic controllers—I
Some Soviet economic controllers—III
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Short reviews
R. W. Campbell, Accounting in Soviet Planning and Management. Russian Research Center Studies, no. 45. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U.P.; London, O.U.P., 1963. 315 pp. $5.50. 44s. James W. Hulse, The Forming of the Communist International. Stanford U.P.; London, O.U.P., 1964. vii+275 pp. $6.50. 52s. Roy E. H. Mellor, Geography of the USSR. London, Macmillan, 1964. xv+402 pp. 45s. Nigel Grant, Soviet Education. London, Penguin Books, 1964. 190 pp. 3 …
M. Aurelius Atho Marcellus
One of the smallest of the papyri in the files of cohors XX Palmyrenorum stationed at Dura-Europos in Syria Coele appears to be one of the most interesting. It is P. Dura 81, which is dated, on similarity of style to another document, to c . A.D. 251: On the fourth line J. F. Gilliam the editor comments: ‘Following - athon it appears that o was first written and then corrected to i . Possibly these letters are part of a name, perhaps the nomen of…
The Training Grounds of the Roman Cavalry
A note on grain statistics
IN his stimulating article in Soviet Studies, vol. XVIII, no. 4 (April 1967), pp. 399-434, Professor Karcz carefully examines the well-known comparison of prewar and postwar grain production made by Stalin on 28 May 1928. The table cited by Stalin, which was supplied by Nemchinov, purports to show that in 1926/27 'commodity grain (extra-rural)' amounted to 630omillion poods (10-3 million tons) or 13.3% of the total grain harvest, against a 'prewa…
A History of Soviet Russia. Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929
Journal Article Carr (E. H.) & Davies (R. W.). Foundations of a Planned Economy 1926–1929Zaleski (E.). Planning for Economic Growth in the Soviet Union Get access A History of Soviet Russia. Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929. Vol. I by E. H. Carr and R. W. Davies. Vol. II by E. H. Carr. (Vol. I. London: Macmillan, 1969. Pp. xvi + 452 (Part I), 570 (Part II). £14.00 (the set). Vol. II. London: Macmillan, 1971. Pp. 493. £10.00.)Planning f…
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