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59 new.gif Mark Harrison
Counter-Terrorism in a Police State: The KGB and Codename Blaster, 1977
Original version received 15 October 2009
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58 new.gif Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev
Selective Justice: Party Control Under Stalin
Revised version received 14 October 2009
Original version received 30 September 2009
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57 Paul Gregory
Boxing and Power Struggle: Bukharin Versus Stalin
Original version received 30 June 2009
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56 Mark Harrison
Forging Success: Soviet Managers and False Accounting, 1943 to 1962
Original version received 17 June 2009
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55 Mark Harrison
Secrets, Lies, and Half Truths: the Decision to Disclose Soviet Defense Outlays
Original version received 26 September 2008
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54 Mark Harrison
How Mr Nikolaenko Beat the Soviet Mafia
Original version received 26 September 2008
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53 Andrei Markevich
How Much Control is Enough? Monitoring and Enforcement under Stalin
Original version received 8 December 2007
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 52 Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich
Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons
Original version received 12 November 2007
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 51 Andrei Markevich
The Dictator’s Dilemma: to Punish or to Assist? Plan Failures and Interventions under Stalin
Original version received 20 September 2007
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 50 Simon Ertz
Making Sense of the Gulag: Analyzing and Interpreting the Function of the Stalinist Camp System
Revised version received 4 March 2008
Original version received 17 August 2007
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 49 Pál Germuska
Military-Economic Planning in Socialist Hungary: the General Organisational Department of the National Planning Office, 1948–1971
Original version received 15 July 2007
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48 Saulius Grybkauskas
State-Security Clearance as an Instrument of Social Control in the Industry of Soviet Lithuania, 1965 to 1985
Original version received 11 May 2007
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47 Oxana Klimkova
The "Great Terror" in the GULAG: A Case Study of the White-Sea Baltic Combine and the Camp of the NKVD
Original version received 9 August 2006
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46 Cynthia V. Hooper
A Darker "Big Deal": Covering Up Party Crimes in the Post-World War II Era
Original version received 23 June 2005
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45 Don Filtzer
Environmental Health in the Regions During Late Stalinism: The Example of Water Supply
Original version received 1 June 2005
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44 Don Filtzer
Standard of Living versus Quality of Life: Struggling with the Urban Environment in Russia During the Early Years of Postwar Reconstruction
Original version received 1 June 2005
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43 Don Filtzer
The 1947 Food Crisis and its Aftermath: Worker and Peasant Consumption in Non-Famine Regions of the RSFSR
Original version received 17 April 2005
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42 Simon Ertz
Trading Effort for Freedom: Workday Credits in the Stalinist Camp System
Original version received 15 April 2005
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41 Melanie Ilič and Christopher Joyce
Soviet Political Repression: Three "Victim" Case Studies
Original version received 18 February 2005
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40

Paul Gregory and Mark Harrison
Planning and Policy Under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives
Original version received 19 January 2005
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39

Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich
Hierarchies and Markets: The Institutional Setting of the Soviet Defense Industry, 1929 to 1953
Original version received 3 January 2005
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38

R. W. Davies
Preparations for Mobilisation of the Soviet Economy in the 1930s
Original version received 5 December 2004
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37

Andrei Markevich
Planning the Soviet Defense Industry: the Late 1920s and 1930s
Original version received 7 November 2004
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36

Mikhail Mukhin
Employment in the Soviet Aircraft Industry, 1918 to 1940: Work Culture, Organization, and Incentives
Original version received 8 September 2004
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35

Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison
Quality, Experience, and Monopoly: Regulating the Soviet Seller’s Market for Military Goods
Original version received 21 June 2004
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34

Mark Harrison
Why Secrets? The Uses of Secrecy in Stalin's Command Economy
Original version received 14 June 2004
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33

Simon Ertz
Tracking Down the "Real" GULAG: Explorations into the Administration of the Stalinist Forced Labour Camp System [in Russian]
Revised version received 10 April 2004
Original version received 6 April 2004
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Leonid Borodkin and Simon Ertz
Forced Labor and the Need for Motivation: Wages and Bonuses in the Stalinist Camp System
Original version received 6 April 2004
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31

Andrei Sokolov
Before Stalinism: the Defense Industry of Soviet Russia in the 1920s
Original version received 6 April 2004
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30

James W. Heinzen
Corruption in the Gulag: Dilemmas of Officials and Prisoners
Original version received 26 March 2004
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29

R. W. Davies
The Soviet Economy and the Launching of the Great Terror
Original version received 1 March 2004
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28

Derek Watson
Molotov, the War, and Soviet Government
Original version received 12 January 2004
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27

R. W. Davies
The Archives and the Stalinist Economy
Original version received 17 November 2003
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26

Byung-Yeon Kim 
Informal Economy Activities of Soviet Households
Original version received 29 January 2003
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25

Andrei Markevich [in Russian]
Was the Soviet Economy Planned? Planning in the People's Commissariats in the 1930s
Original version received 23 January 2003
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24

Mark Harrison
How Much Did the Soviets Really Spend on Defence? New Evidence From the Close of the Brezhnev Era
Original version received 3 January 2003
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23

A. J. Heywood
Destruction, Restoration and Reconstruction in the Russian/Soviet Economy, 1914-1928: Myth and Reality on the Railways
Original version received 18 October 2002
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22

Keith Dexter
Numbered Soviet Aviation Factories, 1921-1941
Original version received 15 October 2002
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21

Paul R. Gregory
The Principles of Governance
Original version received 26 September 2002
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20

Paul R. Gregory
Collectivization, Accumulation, and Power
Original version received 26 September 2002
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19

Paul R. Gregory
The Jockey or the Horse?
Original version received 26 September 2002
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18

Derek Watson
Molotov and the Moscow Conference, October 1943
Original version received 5 March 2002
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17

R. W. Davies
Closing the "Bergson Gap": New Data on a Problem in Soviet Statistics
Original version received 17 December 2001
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16

R. W. Davies
Why Was There a Soviet Investment Cycle in 1933-7? Preliminary Notes and Worries
Original version received 17 December 2001
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15

Derek Watson
Molotov, The Making of the Grand Alliance and the Second Front, 1939-1942
Original version received 21 November 2001
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14

Eugenia Belova
Contract Enforcement Under Dictatorship: the Case of the Soviet Economy
Original version received 30 October 2001
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13

Mark Harrison
Soviet Industry and the Red Army under Stalin: A Military-Industrial Complex?
Original version received 15 October 2001
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12

Mark Harrison
The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R&D Failure: Steam Power for Aviation, 1932 to 1939
Original version received 12 September 2001
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11

Valery Lazarev
Political Economy of the Soviet Elite and Its Post-Communist Transformation
Original version received 6 July 2001
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10

Yoram Gorlizki
Theft Under Stalin: A Property Rights Analysis
Original version received 28 June 2001
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9

Mark Harrison
A Soviet Market for Inventions: Jet Propulsion, 1932 to 1946
Original version received 27 June 2001
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8

Don Filtzer
Labour Discipline and Criminal Law in Soviet Industry, 1945-1953
Original version received 26 February 2001
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7

Don Filtzer
Work Environment, Work Culture, and the Postwar Reconstruction of Soviet Industry, 1945-1953
Original version received 26 February 2001
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6

Paul R. Gregory
The Dictator's Orders
Original version received 3 January 2001
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5

Valery Lazarev and Paul R. Gregory
Dictators and Cars: a Case Study in the Political Economy of Dictatorship
Original version received 3 January 2001
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4

Aleksei Tikhonov and Paul R. Gregory
Stalin's Last Plan
Original version received 3 January 2001
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3

Eugenia Belova
Economic Crime and Punishment
Original version received 3 January 2001
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2

Eugenia Belova and Paul R. Gregory
Dictators, Loyal and Opportunistic Agents, and Punishment: the Soviet Archives on Creating the Soviet Economic System
Original version received 30 August 2000
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Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev
Stalin's Car Dealership: Evidence From the Soviet State and Party Archives
Original version received 30 August 2000
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