R. W. Davies

R. W. DAVIES is Emeritus Professor of Soviet Economic Studies in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, of which he was previously Director. IN the course of his research he has paid many visits to Russia to study in Moscow and St Petersburg libraries and in the state and former party archives. His previous publications include The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System; Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution; From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy (editor); The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-1930; The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930; and The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929-1930. He collaborated with E. H. Carr on Volumes 9 and 10 of A History of Soviet Russia.