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Strategy and Economics: A Soviet View
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A. N.Lagovskii, Strategiia i ekonomika, Moscow, Voennoe Izdatel'stvo Ministerstva Oborony Soiuza SSR, 1957, 200 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
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Recent advances in military technology are forcing radical revisions in Western thinking on the interconnection between war and the economic process. Concepts established by the experience of World Wars I and II have suffered a near-total eclipse. The thermo-nuclear bomb and the ICBM leave little room for the traditional notion of the “economic potential” that furnishes a nation with a “mobilization base” capable of providing the sinews of war in protracted struggles of attrition.
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1 The Russian word ekonomika has no single and precise English equivalent. It stands for the science of “economics,” but also for “economic life” or “the economy.” Thus Lagovskii's title can be translated as either Strategy and Economics or Strategy and the Economy. In quoting from the book, we have varied the translation of ekonomika with the context.
2 Dinerstein, Herbert S., “The Revolution in Soviet Strategic Thinking,“ Foreign Affairs, XXXVI, No. 2 (January 1958), pp. 241–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3 Lagovskii's manuscript went to press on June 7, 1957, and was “signed for printing” on September 20, 1957. The communiqué on the Soviet ICBM test was published on August 27, 1957.