The budget of the Soviet Communist Party -- Trends in party finance, 1939 - 1965 -- The special budget of 1948 -- "Impossible structures": resource allocation and party donors -- Funding loyalty with promises -- The party and its overseers -- Selective justice: party control under Stalin -- How...

We use unique archival data on the allocation of vehicles, i.e. cars and trucks, in the 1930s by a three-person commission of top Soviet officials for an empirical investigation of resource allocation by a dictatorship. Two distinct models of dictatorial allocative behavior, namely, an economic...