Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union /

The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the rule of the nomenklatura and in either deterring or defeating foreign enemies of the Soviet Union. We...

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Автор: Grossman, Hershel
Інші автори: Gershenson, Dmitry
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/201
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