Thanks! A friend recommended this to me while I was writing. He (Nintil) is more generally negative on Allen than I am, but also slightly more agnostic on imperial Russia.
Weirdly, this appears to be one of the few (apart from the reviews he cited) critiques out there.
Some other discussion of Allen: https://nintil.com/the-soviet-series-from-farm-to-factory-stalins-industrial-revolution/
Thanks! A friend recommended this to me while I was writing. He (Nintil) is more generally negative on Allen than I am, but also slightly more agnostic on imperial Russia.
Weirdly, this appears to be one of the few (apart from the reviews he cited) critiques out there.