Dr Giovanni Cadioli – new book

‘Defined as the “strategist of the economic victory” of the USSR in the Second World War, Nikolai Voznesenskii directed Soviet planning, was one of its main theorists and collaborated directly with Stalin. Yet, outside of specialist circles, his name remains little known: overwhelmed by the purges, he was executed in 1950’

REES/RESC alumnus Dr Giovanni Cadioli (University of Padova) has published a new book based on his DPhil research at St Antony’s. Entitled Il pianificatore. Economia, politica e potere in URSS (The Planner: Economics, Politics and Power in the USSR) this book reconstructs the political biography of Voznesenskii, while offering a glimpse into the political, economic and ideological context of the time. His exemplary parable sheds light on the complex dynamics of power in Stalin’s USSR and helps us understand the evolution of the Soviet system up to Gorbachev’s perestroika, which marked its definitive decline. More here