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For the Soviet economy under Stalin, there's a recent Russian economics book called Growth Crystal that deals with it. The full thing hasn't been translated into English, but a PDF summary has:
https://crystalbook.ru/
https://crystalbook.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/growth-crystal-ENG.pdf
The full version of the book in Russian is available for free on the website too.
Even if you claim that a lot of the arguments from the book were too uncritical about Stalin, the nice thing about this book is that a lot of the primary sources referenced can be directly accessible through istmat.org (short for Historical Materialism), a website run by volunteers dedicated to digitizing materials from the Soviet archive (by the way, the guy who started the project was a communist who went to fight in the DPR until he was killed in a car accident in 2020).
You can actually cross-reference with the data from the Soviet archive, which I think is pretty cool. I’ve dug out a few reports to verify a couple of the claims, but I can only wish that my Russian is good enough to be able to utilize the full potential of such wealth of materials and information.
This Growth Crystal summary is great, pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Hope the full book gets translated into English one day, though.