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This final chapter deals with the Soviet side of what turned out to be the pre-war arms race. When the drafts for the third five-year plan for the period 1938–42 were made in 1937, nobody could know when a great war was most likely to occur. This self-evident elementary fact is worth underlining, since Soviet as well as Western historians have tended to judge the state of war-economic preparedness of the USSR from hindsight, rather than from the historical situation of the Soviet leadership.
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Samuelson, L. (2000). Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937–41. In: Plans for Stalin’s War Machine. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286764_9
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