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World Economic Growth and the Soviet Challenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Stanislaw Swianiewicz
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An Economist and a political scientist studying the postwar world cannot fail to be impressed by two outstanding features of postwar development: the expansion of the military and economic power of the Soviet Union and the acceleration of economic growth throughout the world, particularly in the advanced capitalist countries. In this article I propose to investigate possible interrelations of these phenomena.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 455 - 475
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1968

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