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Allocation under dictatorship : research in Stalin’s archives
Get PDFWe survey recent research on the Soviet economy in the state, party, and military
archives of the Stalin era. The archives have provided rich new evidence on the economic
arrangements of a command system under a powerful dictator including
Stalin’s role in the making of the economic system and economic policy, Stalin’s accumulation
objectives and the constraints that limited his power to achieve them, the
limits to administrative allocation, the information flows and incentives that governed
the behavior of economic managers, the scope and significance of corruption and
market-oriented behavior, and the prospects for economic reform
Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union. Ed. Barry McLoughlin and Kevin McDermott. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xviii, 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Tables. $72.00, hard bound.
No full textStalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941. By Paul Hagenloh. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xix, 460 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Tables. §45.00, hard bound.
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Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator - Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. By Oleg V. Khlevniuk. Trans. Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xvi, 392 pp. Notes. Index. Plates. $25.00, paper.
No full textNight of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia. By Catherine Merridale. New York: Viking, 2000. xii, 402 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, hard bound.
No full textMolotov and Soviet Government: Sovnarkom, 1930-41, By Derek Watson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 1996. xxiii, 274 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Tables. $45.00, hard bound.
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Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin. By Peter H. Solomon, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii, 494 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. 29.95, paper.
No full textStalin: Breaker of Nations. By Robert Conquest. New York: Viking, 1991. xvii, 337 pp. Index. Plates. Bibliographical note. $25.00, hard bound.
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