His 1984 survey of Soviet industrialisation in the 1920s and 30s, "Industrializat︠s︡ii︠a︡ SSSR--istorii︠a︡, opyt, problemy", was praised by Hiroaki Kuromiya in "The Russian Review" for its innovative approach in covering not only the economic problems faced by the Soviet Union but the social ones too, making the work valuable to social historians.