title: Mission from Moscow: Soviet Advisers and the Second Indian Five-Year Plan
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metadata.value: Engerman, David C.
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metadata.value: 2019-12-12T21:19:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-12-12T21:19:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Engerman D. C. ‘Mission from Moscow: Soviet Advisers and the Second Indian Five-Year Plan’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 3, 2019, pp. 685–696.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2019.309
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16836
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metadata.value: The article examines some early Soviet contacts with Indian planners to show effects on economists
  and economic ideas in both countries. Using documents from Soviet and Indian archives, this article traces effects
  of Soviet advisors working with the Indian Planning Commission at the crucial moment of formulating India’s
  Second Five-Year Plan (1956–61). It shows how Soviet economists, most notably M. I. Rubinshtein, were part of
  an official effort to shape the direction of Indian economic policy — but also how Indian planners like P. C. Mahalanobis
  were able to use foreign visitors for support. It also suggests ways that the advising relationships in India
  may have had more effect on Soviet views of the Third World than on Indian plans. Mahalanobis’s enthusiasm
  for importing planning helped him build a technical edifice for his vision of Indian economic policy and to build
  domestic support for it. For the Soviets, meanwhile, the encounter with India contributed to a reimaging of the developing
  world. Rubinshtein’s travel to and studies of India, then, accelerated the broader Soviet reconsideration
  of the non-capitalist path, and with it a core element of Soviet eschatology. There was still one ultimate destination
  for history — Communism — but there was, theoretically at least, more than one way to get there.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: third world
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: India
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economic advisors
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: M. I. Rubinshtein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: P. C. Mahalanobis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Mission from Moscow: Soviet Advisers and the Second Indian Five-Year Plan
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metadata.value: Article
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