T.A. Bisson — Japan’s War Economy (1949)

T.A. Bisson — Japan’s War Economy (1949)

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T.A. Bisson — Japan’s War Economy (1949)

T.A. Bisson — Japan’s War Economy (1949)

$87.00
$87.00

Rare First Soviet Edition on Imperial Japan’s WWII Economy

Title: Экономика войны Японии (Japan’s War Economy)
Author: T. A. Bisson
Publisher: Publishing House of Foreign Literature, Moscow
Place of Publication: USSR
Year: 1949
Language: Russian (translated from English)
Subject: WWII history / economic history / Imperial Japan
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Vintage collectible condition with signs of age and archival use consistent with postwar Soviet publications. Includes historical library stamps, including provenance from a Tbilisi-based library. Pages readable and binding intact. Please review photos carefully.

Description

Rare 1949 Soviet first edition of Japan’s War Economy by T. A. Bisson, published in Moscow by the Publishing House of Foreign Literature.

This important historical and analytical study examines the industrial, financial, and administrative mobilization of Imperial Japan during World War II. The book served as a major reference source for Soviet researchers, economists, military analysts, and historians studying wartime economies and East Asian affairs in the early Cold War period.

Translated into Russian shortly after the war, this edition reflects the Soviet Union’s strategic and scholarly interest in the economic structure of wartime Japan.

Contents

Part I

Industry under the “New Economic Structure” (1940–1941)
Analysis of industrial reorganization and wartime economic planning in Imperial Japan.

Part II

Crisis in the Economic Management System (1942–1943)
Discussion of wartime shortages, administrative inefficiency, and systemic economic strain.

Part III

The Ministry of Munitions under Three Cabinets (1944–1945)
Examination of late-war military-industrial administration and economic collapse.

Supplementary Material

  • Scholarly introductory article
  • Author’s preface
  • Historical and economic commentary

Historical Significance

T. A. Bisson was one of the leading Western experts on East Asian political and economic affairs during the mid-20th century.

This Soviet edition is historically important because it demonstrates:

  • USSR analysis of Imperial Japan after WWII
  • Soviet interest in wartime industrial systems
  • Early Cold War academic translation projects
  • The exchange and adaptation of foreign political-economic scholarship in the USSR

The presence of original Tbilisi library stamps adds documented Georgian Soviet provenance and archival character to the volume.

About the Edition

An excellent collectible for:

  • WWII historians
  • Researchers of Japanese economic history
  • Collectors of Soviet political literature
  • Scholars of Cold War studies
  • Libraries and archival collections

Rare early Soviet translations of Western geopolitical works are increasingly difficult to locate in preserved condition.

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