Foreign Aid and Soviet Postwar Recovery
考察苏联在二战后未参与援助计划的经济后果,比较战争损失与所获及潜在援助价值,并反驳传统观点认为若苏联接受援助而非赔款将显著减轻战后影响。
This paper examines the economic consequences to the Soviet Union of not participating in proposed aid programs in the immediate postwar period. The cost of World War II to the Soviet Union is compared with the value of economic aid received in the postwar period and with aid potentially available. The traditional story—which suggests that had the USSR received some combination of the proposed aid prgorams, in lieu of reparations, the postwar impact would have been significantly reduced—is rejected.