Soviet Steel : : The Challenge of Industrial Modernization in the USSR / / Boris Rumer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rumer, Boris,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Soviet history and society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 map, 30 tables

As the Soviet Union embarks upon a bold program of economic and political restructuring, the steel industry is the key to the thoroughgoing industrial modernization that is essential to the success of perestroika. This book, the first devoted entirely to Soviet steel, subjects this crucial sector of the nation's economy to meticulous scrutiny and analysis.Boris Rumer highlights the contradictions and imbalances underlying the contemporary crisis in the Soviet economy to examine its weaknesses and to identify the difficult problems that policymakers face. Drawing on a broad base of technical, economic, and statistical data, Rumer appraises the challenges—constant metal shortages, inadequate utilization of productive capacity, an uneasy relationship between metallurgy and the construction of machinery, and the invention and introduction of new technologies. Using iron ore production as an example, he discusses the extractive spheres of the economy as well as the causes and consequences of the traditional Soviet search for self-sufficiency in raw materials.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Dynamics and Peculiarities of Steel Consumption in the USSR -- 2 Qualitative Achievements of Soviet Steel Production -- 3 Soviet Steel Plants: Major Descriptive Features -- 4 Capacity Utilization -- 5 Iron-Ore Resources and Their Utilization -- 6 Investment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index