Novosibirsk. Nauka Publishing House. Sibirskoe otd-E. 1975. 263 pp. The print run is 1,700. Price 1 rub. 29 kopecks. The history of the development of natural and productive resources of Siberia has long attracted the attention of Soviet scientists-historians, economists, geographers. The book by A. S. Moskovsky, a senior researcher at the Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, is the first attempt to create a generalizing work on the industrial development of Siberia during the period from the establishment of Soviet power to the completion of the second five-year plan. The author set out to trace the state and development of Siberian industry at various stages of socialist construction. He focuses on heavy industry. The book covers the construction of large industrial enterprises, the creation and development of new industries based on the use of the richest natural resources of Siberia. The geographical scope of the work covers the territory of the modern Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Chita, partly Tyumen regions, Altai and Krasnoyarsk Territories, and the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Based on factual material extracted from the literature, central and local archives, A. S. Moskovsky identified three stages of industrial development in Siberia during the years of socialist construction and gave a description of each of them. At the first stage (restoration and the beginning of reconstruction), which the author dates from 1921-1928, the pre-revolutionary level of industrial production was not only achieved, but also exceeded. During these years, industry has taken a dominant position in the economy of Siberia, and the share of heavy industry has increased. The second stage (the struggle to build the foundation of a socialist economy) coincides with the first five-year plan and is characterized by an unusually rapid industrial development in ... Читать далее