A close study of how the Soviet state built the machinery to run its factories, from the October Revolution to the abolition of the Supreme Economic Council in January 1932.It follows the offices, statutes and reorganisations: the Supreme Economic Council and its chief committees, the trusts, the syndicates, the credit reform, and the shift from economic councils to branch People's Commissariats. It is drawn from documents in the Central State Archive of the USSR National Economy a...