term. As Russia’s aggressive wars are a consequence of the personalist dictatorship that has embraced the imperialist idea …The current wave of emigrants from Russia can play an important role in the country's political transition in the long …

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy … through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928 …-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and …