Understanding the pattern of postwar slowdown in Soviet productivity growth
requires evaluation of the impact of World War II and associated shocks. Continuous
productivity series for industry and the whole economy are estimated for the period
1928–85. The pattern of Soviet productivity growth was highly disturbed; by postwar
standards its underlying growth was slow. Rapid growth and slowdown from the late
1940s through the 1960s and beyond are explained just by postwar recovery
possibilities and their exhaustion. Clear evidence of an adverse break in the
productivity trend does not transpire until the 1970s
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