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Das Volkskommissariat für Außenhandel und seine Nachfolgeorganisationen 1920- 1930
Heubaum, Regine - 2002
Die Dissertation untersucht am Beispiel des Volkskommissariates für Außenhandel die Entstehung der frühen Sowjetbürokratie und analysiert administrative und politische Prozesse, die der Herausbildung des Stalinismus vorangingen. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Probleme des staatlich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467018
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Economic transformation and institutional change : a cross-national study in the conversion of union structures and politics in Eastern Europe
Schienstock, Gerd; Traxler, Franz - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000856119
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Risse im roten Imperium : das Nationalitätenproblem in der Sowjetunion
Carrère d'Encausse, Hélène - 1979 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000064849
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Superpower interventions and their consequences for democracy : an empirical inquiry
Easterly, William; Satyanath, Shanker; Berger, Daniel - 2008
"Do superpower interventions to install and prop up political leaders in other countries subsequently result in more or less democracy, and does this effect vary depending on whether the intervening superpower is democratic or authoritarian? While democracy may be expected to decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715068
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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union : an analysis using archival and anthropometric data
Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor) - 2006
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … -- sometimes rapidly -- from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278940
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Life cycle of the centrally planned economy: why soviet growth rates peaked in the 1950s
Popov, Vladimir V. (contributor) - 2006
USSR, the highest productivity was achieved after the period equal to the average service life of fixed capital stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342087
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Whistleblower or troublemaker? : how one man took on the Soviet Mafia
Harrison, Mark (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866073
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Forging success : soviet managers and false accounting, 1943 to 1962
Harrison, Mark (contributor) - 2009
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. False accounting for the value of production appears to have been widespread in some branches of the economy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866594
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Russia's real national income: the great war, civil war and recovery, 1913 to 1928
Markevič, Andrej M.; Harrison, Mark - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885945
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Counter-terrorism in a police state : the KGB and codename Blaster, 1977
Harrison, Mark - 2009
The paper provides a rare case study of terrorism and counter-terrorism within a closed society, carried out under a blanket of official secrecy. This case is unexpectedly revealing in what it tells us about terrorism, counterterrorism, and the relative strengths of open and closed societies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891831