R. W. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Russian Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Mark Harrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK, a Research Associate of Warwick's ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for European, Russian, Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham.

Oleg Khlevniuk is Professor of History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation, and Leading Research Fellow of the HSE International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences.

Stephen G. Wheatcroft is Professor of History at Deakin University, Australia, and a Professorial Fellow and Associate of the University of Melbourne.

Concludes the seven volume series The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia

Provides an authoritative account of the Soviet Union's industrial transformation between 1937 and 1939

Explores the industrialisation of Soviet Russia from the Great Terror to the Hitler-Stalin pact and the outbreak of World War II

1: The repressions of 1937-1938 and the Soviet economy.- 2: The political context of economic change: 1937 to the spring of 1939.- 3: The economic slowdown of 1937.- 4: 1937 in retrospect.- 5: The Soviet population and the censuses of 1937 and 1939.- 6: The partial recovery of the economy in 1938.- 7: Agriculture in 1938 and 1939.- 8: The drive for growth and the Eighteenth Party Congress, January-March .- 9: The economy in 1939: further moves to a war economy.- 10: The Soviet economy: the late 1930s in historical perspective.