Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina; Guriev, Sergei; Markevich, Andrei - 2022
standards, which shows that throughout history Russia significantly underperformed advanced economies. We also compile reliable … quantifications of the human cost of Stalin's dictatorship. Second, we discuss new studies of imperial Russia that partially confirm … Gerschenkron's classic conjecture on the institutional explanation for Russia's relatively low level of economic development and on …