India and the Soviet Union
Trade and Technology Transfer

This 1991 book is a comprehensive study of the trading relationship between India and the Soviet Union.

Santosh K. Mehrotra (Author)

9780521362023, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 January 1991

262 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.56 kg

"Hitherto this has been an area of Soviet-Third World relations which has attracted substantial interest, mostly from Indian and Soviet authors, but the quality of most previous contributions was indifferent. This study, which makes use of substantial field research, is altogether of a higher standard. It is likely to remain the definitive study in the field...." Colin Lawson, The International History Review

India was the Soviet Union's most important trading partner among the less developed countries (LDCs) and the largest recipient of Soviet aid to non-socialist LDCs. Similarly the Soviet Union is one of India's largest trade partners. In this 1991 book, Santosh Mehrotra presents a comprehensive study of this trading relationship and the transfer of technology from the Soviet Union. He begins by outlining Indian economic strategy since the 1950s and the role of Soviet and East European technical assistance. Part II examines Soviet technological transfer to India since 1955. The final chapters analyse Indo-Soviet trade in the 1970s and 1980s, covering payment arrangements and bilateral trading. The book is an exhaustive analysis of economic relations between an industrialised planned economy and a developing market economy. It will therefore become essential reading for students and specialists of development economics and international relations as well as for government and institutional economists in international trade and finance.

List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: 1. The Indian development strategy and the USSR
2. Indo-Soviet economic relations: geo-political and ideological factors
3. Soviet economic interests in non-socialist LDCs
Part II: 4. Aid flows
5. The collaboration agreements
6. Transfer of technology
Part III: 7. Bilateral payments
8. Bilateral trade
9. Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]