This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history
of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical …

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at
the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill …

Attempting to satisfy their political masters in a target-driven culture, Soviet managers had to
optimize on many margins simultaneously. One of these was the margin of truthfulness …

This article provides the first thick description of the counter‐intelligence function in a
command economy of the S oviet type. Based on documentation from S oviet L ithuania, the …

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a
complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state …

An 'efficiency wage'model developed for Western economies is reinterpreted in the context
of Stalin's Russia, with imprisonment–not unemployment–acting as a 'worker discipline …

Business historians have hitherto paid only scant attention to the Soviet experience. This
article is an attempt to summarize the knowledge we have gained in the two decades …

Политическая коммуникация—витальный элемент современного политического
процесса и основной инструмент конкуренции за властные ресурсы. В современных …

It is customary to associate the twentieth century communication with extraordinary high
informational content setting it apart from interaction in the earlier, less technologically and …

What does it cost to do business under a dictator? In 1949 the Soviet state had entered its
most secretive phase. One of the Gulag's most important secrets was the location of its …