of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual …-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences between Russia and the CEE countries in this respect. While in the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution - at the same …

Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives …

This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings … German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech …

described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …