The timeline you give is actually ideal for this, because it means that this difficulty is going to be within the first decade or two of play, and that'll give the player something interesting to work on. As you say, it was when the USSR started shifting from building new factories to upgrading old ones that their system really started to have difficulties. This is something we can definitely represent via vast numbers of factories with fairly primitive Production Methods. Without that spending, the Armed Forces interest group would be far less powerful.įrancis Spufford says that the USSR's growth was largely based on consuming more and more raw materials, rather than (as with Western Europe) becoming more efficient with the same amount of finished goods. I'd absolutely like to incorporate both of these. Another is that without the huge military spending of the Cold War, the USSR would be better off. One is that there was little expansion possible within European Russia, and that in order to continue expanding its production base, the USSR needed to invest in Siberia, which was more difficult. You've got a few points here that I think are really interesting. ![]() ![]() Also, other mods have explored Bukharin being in charge. I think a mod timeline in which Stalin doesn't rise to power would be one which is so radically different that it might dominate the rest of the mod. Honestly, I am not sure how it could apply to the game, but I find it fascinating (very good and informative book btw, even if I don't understand economic model calculations, lol) :> (If I understand correctly some kind of pricing/production-efficiency acconunting mechanism would have to be introduced, but idk)Īnd I can agree with Allen that central planning isn't necessarily a bad economic system, even for developed economies, but to quote Allen again:īut there still be hope for the Soviet People at this time, and especialy in this timeline! However, it does not mean that there were not challanges going ahead, Soviet leadership would have to fundamentaly change it's conservative mindset, because as long as the 'old soviet' conditions were there the it would work (and they most likely still would be at the end of those conditions in this timeline by the game's start) because to quote Robert C. ![]() In conclussion it leads me to believe that the economic situation of the USSR would be significantly better than in real life at least for the time being. ![]() Allen, and I read some interesting things that could be of use.įirst let's backtrack a bit from my previous suggestion and assume that Stalin did take power as in OTL and than we can try going with changes in this timline that would affect Soviet Union so the Soviet Economy started stagnating when they achieved full employment around 1970, than their model of growth started showing it's cracks because Soviet leadership shifted from contructing new factories to modernising old ones, which proved to be less efficient (it would even be more efficient if they chose to abandon the old ones and switch to 'green-field' ones) in this timeline without the WW2 Soviet Union Population would be around 20-25% (!) percent higher (it would be even greater if collectivisation didn't happen), so if I had to estimate it on a glimpse it would give them like 5-10 years of more rapid growth without changing anything in their economic thinking further more another part in their issue with inefficient investments is that the resources in the european part of the Soviet Union started depleting and so they started investing in Syberian resources, which proved to be a massive investment sink while it would be much more efficient to import resources from abroad and here in this timeline and without the bipolar cold war, it would be much more viable which leads us to the next point - Soviet lagging behind in technology was caused very strongly by the arms race with the United States, and so they deviated their R&D, as well as other investments, from civilian matters (Allen goes so far as to claim that it accounts for around a half of economic slowdown). I have been trying to finish "Farm to Factory A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution" by Robert C.
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