Download or read book Real Wages in Soviet Russia Since 1928 written by Janet G. Chapman and published by Cambridge, Harvard U.P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of a series of studies that RAND has been conducting on different facets of the Soviet economic-military potential. Because the Soviet government has published information on the cost of living and real wages only during favorable periods, there has been a crucial gap in our knowledge of the Soviet worker's standard of living. Grounded on the economic theory of index numbers, and drawing heavily on a number of earlier RAND studies, this Report presents the first detailed and fully documented Western study of nonagricultural real wages in the Soviet Union from the eve of the first Five Year Plan in 1928 to the present. (Author).