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The dual objective of this chapter is firstly to evaluate various estimates of Soviet military expenditures (SME) under Mikhail Gorbachev that were recently published in the USSR and in the West and secondly to propose alternative estimates which I independently derive below using new Soviet input-output (i-o), GNP and budgetary data for 1988–90. In the concluding remarks I size up the expected weapons production cuts in the USSR defence budget during the 1990s.1
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S. Rosefielde,’ soviet defence spending: The contribution of the new accountancy’, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 1990). See also Dmitri Steinberg, ‘Estimating total Soviet military expenditures: an alternative approach based on reconstructed Soviet national accounts’, in Carl G. Jacobsen (ed.), The Soviet Defense Enigma (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
For example, refer to A. Zalkind (ed.), Dva podrazdeleniya obshchestvennogo produkta (Moscow: Statistika, 1976) pp. 24–5
A. Pozharov, Ekonomicheskiye osnovy oboronnogo mogushchestva sotsialisticheskogo gosudarstva (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1981) pp. 130–2.
M. Bor, Effektivnost obshchestvennogo proizvodstva i problemy opitmalnogo planirovaniya (Moscow: Mysl, 1972) p. 72.
M. Khodorovich, ‘Money in the wind’, Ekonomicheskaya gazeta, 50 (December 1988) p. 11
Dmitri Steinberg, ‘The real size and structure of the Soviet economy: alternative estimates of GNP and military expenditures for 1987’, a paper presented at the AEI conference on the comparison of Soviet and US economies, Washington, DC, 19–21 April 1990.
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Steinberg, D. (1992). Soviet Defence Allocations Under Gorbachev: Analysing New Data for 1988–90. In: Allison, R. (eds) Radical Reform in Soviet Defence Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21722-9_4
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