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the NEP, TsSU was at the heart of Soviet Statistics but it came to be controlled and eventually absorbed by Gosplan … National Economy of the USSR, 1923―24. In The Balance was exposed for the first time the modern principles of national … engineering in the NEP. Against “utopian” authors, Popov stressed the importance of founding social engineering and planning on …
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This paper models the constitutional design process, and points out the importance of political communication (defined as the level of information about the social distribution of policy preferences that individuals hold, at the time of this process) on the "extent" of "democratic restraints" of...
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Internet increasingly serves not only to communication between it's users. The emergence of Web 2.0 platforms which are peculiar to publication of various content (including images, movies, music, links to interesting sites) allowed to release of activity and commitment of millions of people...
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markets. The article finally examines the success and failure of political marketing in creating public opinion in favor of …
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Unlike other information, assertions and conclusions made during the audit process, the auditor's opinion expressed in … classifications and their correction, the opinion expressed by the auditor may have significant consequences. An inadequate opinion … business. To the other extreme, an inadequate opinion may encourage unsustainable actions, with severe consequences both on own …
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This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system. Using Canada as a benchmark for spatial dynamics of economic activity in a market economy, I construct the spatial allocation of population that would result in Russia, given...
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Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of...
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In this paper, the city rank-size hypothesis is tested for the urban system of the USSR and the Republic of Ukraine …
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-size distribution hypothesis and to expand the analysis initiated by Harris (1970) on the USSR. …
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This paper analyzes the geographical patterns of city growth in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in relation to the Stalinist policies of the 1930s to 1950s, and WWII. Using a unique data set on the locations of Gulag camps, and on the evacuation of industrial enterprises during WWII,...
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