Alexander Nove

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Alexander Nove FRSE, FBA (24 November 1915, Saint Petersburg - 15 May 1994, Glasgow) was Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and noted authority on Russian/Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher : "The consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond."[1]

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[edit] Education

[edit] Career

  • Army, 1939-46
  • Civil Service (mainly Board of Trade), 1947-58
  • Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies, University of London, 1958-63
  • Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow, 1963-82, then Emeritus Professor
  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow, 1982-1994

[edit] Publications

  • The Soviet Economy, 1961
  • (with J. A. Newth) The Soviet Middle East, 1965
  • Was Stalin Really Necessary?, 1965
  • Economic History of the USSR, 1969, 3rd edn 1993
  • (ed with D. M. Nuti) Socialist Economics, 1972
  • Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries, 1973
  • Stalinism and After, 1976
  • The Soviet Economic System, 1977, 3rd edn 1986
  • Political Economy and Soviet Socialism, 1979
  • The Economics of Feasible Socialism, 1983
  • Socialism, Economics and Development, 1986
  • Glasnost in Action, 1989
  • Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited, 1991
  • Studies in Economics and Russia, 1991
  • An economic history of the USSR (Londen 1992)
  • (ed) The Stalin Phenomenon, 1993.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ian D. Thatcher, "Alec Nove: a bibliographical tribute - Soviet Studies scholar", Europe-Asia Studies, december 1995.

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