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Tax reform in Central and Eastern Europe

Alexeev, Michael V.; Conrad, Robert F. - 2026

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the transition from centrally planned to market economies. Its main objective is to identify the principal directions of tax reform from the beginning of...

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Three attempts at market reform of the Soviet economy : a comparative analysis

Baydakov, Ivan M.; Mau, Vladimir Aleksandrovič - 2026

This article presents a comparative overview of the three main attempts to introduce market approaches into the economy of the Soviet Union during its seventy-year history: the New Economic Policy (NEP) of 1921-1928, the Kosygin reform of 1965, and perestroika from 1985 to 1991. The research...

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Building communism by numbers : the Third Program of the CPSU and the economics of Soviet welfare targets

Fokin, Aleksandr A.; Pivovarov, Nikita Y. - 2026

This article reinterprets the Third Program of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in 1961 as a rational, auditable social contract for the Soviet one-party state rather than a utopian manifesto. Reconstructing its Stalin-era prehistory-from drafts by Dmitry Manuilsky, Mark Mitin,...

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The impetus for economic reform and the creation of an international comparisons system in Comecon (1962-1969)

Popov, Aleksei A. - 2026

This paper examines the impact of economic reforms in the USSR and the Comecon countries, in particular the Kosygin reform (1965), on the development of a system of international economic comparisons in 1962-1969. Using previously unpublished archival materials from Comecon and Soviet...

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Army, tax reforms, and well-being in eighteenth-century Russia

Mustafin, Arthur R. - 2026

This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits' height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources,...

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"Net Assessment" als Instrument für Deutschlands Sicherheitspolitik : Stoßrichtung und mögliche Anwendung in der Auseinandersetzung mit Russland

Schneider, Jonas - 2025

Systematisches Nachdenken darüber, wie ein "kalter" militärischer Wettbewerb (peacetime military competition) zum eigenen Vorteil gestaltet werden kann, ist im deutschen Regierungsapparat nicht institutionalisiert. Auch deshalb ist es in Deutschland unterentwickelt. Mit Russland befindet sich...

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"Net Assessment" als Instrument für Deutschlands Sicherheitspolitik: Stoßrichtung und mögliche Anwendung in der Auseinandersetzung mit Russland

Schneider, Jonas - 2025

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Draft deferments and higher education : new evidence from a totalitarian state

Lskavyan, Vahe - 2025

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Military production in Russian official statistics of industrial output

Cooper, Julian - 2025

This paper examines the growth of military production in Russia since the onset of the war against Ukraine in February 2022. Utilizing official data from Rosstat, the study explores how military production is classified within Russian industrial output statistics. The analysis reveals...

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Equal before luck? : well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Rosello-Roig, Melcior - 2025

Past trauma resulting from personal life shocks, especially during periods of particular volatility such as regime transition (or regime change), can give rise to significant long-lasting effects on people's health and well-being. We study this question by drawing on longitudinal and...

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Equal before luck? : well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Rosello-Roig, Melcior - 2025

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Periphery, uncertainty, and legacy : networks of global service firms within the former Soviet Union space

Podkorytova, Maria; Konuykhov, Artem; Nenko, Oleksandra; … - 2025

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The European Parliament, the reform and collapse of the Soviet Union : 1985-1991

2025

Drawing on previously untapped archival sources, this study explores the European Parliament's positions on the fundamental changes in the Soviet Union between March 1985 and December 1991. The study demonstrates how the European Parliament's initiatives, including relations with Soviet...

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The effect of Western technology on Soviet industrial development

Markevič, Andrej M.; Santavirta, Torsten - 2025

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The effect of Western technology on Soviet industrial development

Markevič, Andrej M.; Santavirta, Torsten - 2025

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The effect of western technology on soviet industrial development

Markevič, Andrej M.; Santavirta, Torsten - 2025

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The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025 - This Version: June 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in Eastern European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare measures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes including information...

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The inequality and mobility of exposure to European Soviet Communism

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare mea-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects...

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The generosity of social welfare programmes in the Soviet Union : a comprehensive overview

Heinrich, Andreas - 2025

This working paper presents an overview of the gradual development of the Soviet welfare system from the October Revolution of 1917 to the country’s dissolution in 1991. It examines all major social welfare programmes in the Soviet Union and their generosity – understood as the combination...

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Long lasting health effects of Soviet education

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2025

Education systems serve various purposes, including the enhancement of later-life health, though its effect can differ by socio-political regime. This paper examines the effects of exposure to communist education, which exposed children to a distinct cur-Curriculum and ideological content on...

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Long lasting health effects of Soviet education

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2025

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Reinterpretation of economic history in the Baltic countries, 30 years after independence

Kõll, Anu-Mai - 2025

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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990-2019

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2025

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by migration...

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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union jews in Israel 1990-2019

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2024

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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990-2019

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2023

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Russian nuclear weapons in space? : potential destructive consequences in space, escalation on earth, and damage to arms control

Schneider, Jonas; Süß, Juliana - 2025

According to the US government, the Russian government is developing a programme to arm some of its satellites with nuclear warheads. Should the Kremlin acquire this capability, it could destroy key parts of the civilian satellite infrastructure by detonating a single nuclear weapon in low Earth...

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Edmond Malinvaud and the theory of decentralised planning

Andreff, Wladimir - 2025

The article sketches the context in which economic planning has drawn Malinvaud's attention. His modelling of decentralised planning takes place in the wake of Oskar Lange's model of market socialism and all the research in optimal planning based on the Walrasian tâtonnement. Malinvaud...

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The dynamics of revolutions

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2025

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Self-regulation of property civil relations with the participation of state-owned enterprises : shortcomings of the Soviet approach

Vasyliev, Vladyslav - 2024

The article examines the peculiarities of the exercise of freedom of contract and freedom of entrepreneurial activity by state-owned enterprises in the USSR under the conditions of the state monopoly in the production of property goods, planned regulation of production and administrative-command...

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International mobility of inventors and innovation : empirical evidence from the collapse of the Soviet Union

De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2024

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Did CIA interventions increase US arms exports? : evidence from the Cold War (1962-1989)

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Caruso, Raul - 2024

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Former Soviet Union middle class : how entrepreneurs are shaping a new stratum and pattern of socio-economic behavior

Otar, Elmira; Salikzhanov, Rinat; Akhmetova, Aigul; … - 2024

The purpose of this study is to create a representative socio-economic profile of entrepreneurs operating in the former Soviet Union (FSU) states as a pillar of the new middle-class stratum. This study explored middle-class entrepreneurship from multiple perspectives, encompassing statistical...

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Does crime undermine support for privatization? : evidence from Ukraine

Brik, Tymofii; Protsenko, Vitalii - 2024

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Who collaborates with the Soviets? : financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression

Jiang, Jerry; Weber, Jacob P. - 2025

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Who collaborates with the Soviets? : financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression

Jiang, Jerry; Weber, Jacob P. - 2024

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Economic consequences of the 1933 Soviet famine

Naumenko, Natalya - 2024

Using recently discovered archival data, this article studies the changes in the Soviet population and the urbanization patterns after the 1933 famine. It documents that, although most of the direct victims lived in the rural areas, the famine is associated with a persistent negative change in...

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The Soviet nuclear archipelago : a historical geography of atomic-powered communism

Högselius, Per; Klüppelberg, Achim - 2024

"The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical...

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The Soviet nuclear archipelago : a historical geography of atomic-powered communism

Högselius, Per; Klüppelberg, Achim - 2024

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The Russian economic environment and the collapse of the Soviet Union : a retrospective look

Bradley, Thomas L.; Eberle, Paul Barron - 2024

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Introduction : comparative analyses of shadow economies of Turkic republics

Bagirzadeh, Elshan; Gokcekus, Omer - 2026

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A Marxist analysis of the Soviet economy

Moysan, Erwan - 2026

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Luigi Pasinetti : the approach to development planning in historical context

Garbellini, Nadia; Halevi, Joseph; Melnik, Denis - 2026

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Russia as a great power : from 1815 to the present day part 1

Ellman, Michael - 2023

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Towing norms through the American dream

Jelnov, Pavel - 2023

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, in which Soviet Jewish immigrants were quasi-randomly allocated of to the U.S. and Israel. I find that young women who immigrated as children follow similar fertility profiles in the two host countries. In Israel, they are also similar to...

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Russia as a great power, from 1815 to the present day Part II

Ellman, Michael - 2023

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On the economic mechanics of warfare

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2023

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Milton Friedman and the Cold War, 1950-1968 : McCarthyism, Foreign Aid, and the Soviet Economy

Nelson, Edward - 2023

The paper considers Milton Friedman’s interventions in U.S. public debate in the period from 1950 to 1968 on matters related to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following a discussion of Friedman’s general posture regarding the U.S./USSR conflict, three specific...

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Web3, blocksplained

Marchetti, Sabina - 2023

‘Web3’ is shorthand for decentralized internet applications built on blockchains. Based on distributed ledger technology, Web3 applications seamlessly encompass value tokenization (the basis of peer-to-peer payments and many other uses) and decentralized management of information, with great...

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The Paradox of Socialism : Unveiling the True Nature of the Soviet Union's Socioeconomic System

Hagigi, Nir - 2023

The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked the inception of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as a self-proclaimed socialist state. However, the gap between the stated ideology and the actual practices of the Soviet Union led to a paradox regarding the nature of its socioeconomic system....

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Magna Carta

Desierto, Desiree; Hall, Jacob; Koyama, Mark - 2023

Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

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Cliometrics, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union

Gregg, Amanda G. - 2023

This chapter provides an overview of classic and recent cliometric studies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. The literature is expansive, so this chapter will focus on a few key themes underpinning most cliometric studies on this region. First, I outline factors that may have inhibited...

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Istoriki-ėkonomičeskie osnovy diskursov ovščestvennogo razvitija SSSR i Rossijskoj Federacii i ich vlijanija na chozjajstvennye reformy (vtoraja polovina XX v.)

Orechovskij, Petr Aleksandrovič - 2023

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Twisted trajectories and Jewish-Muslim interfaces : Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna

Skvirskaja, Vera - 2023

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and demand for family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2023

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If you do not change your behavior : preventive repression in Lithuania under soviet rule

Nazrullaeva, Eugenia; Harrison, Mark - 2023

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If you do not change your behavior : preventive repression in lithuania under soviet rule

Nazrullaeva, Eugenia; Harrison, Mark - 2023

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if you do not change your behavior : preventive repression in lithuania under soviet rule

Nazrullaeva, Eugenia; Harrison, Mark - 2023

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Soviet big business : the rise and fall of the state corporation Sovrybflot, 1965-1991

Yányshev Nésterova, Irina - 2023

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Adani Vs Hindenburg

Singh, Abhishek - 2023

Hindenburg a research agency that is known to be famous for gaslighting the inner workings within a corporate with the help many takes a shot position with the help of the investors who were deemed to get the research information before it gets published and as soon as the news broke out as...

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The Fates of Soviet Secret Cities

Chang, Kaichao; Becker, Charles - 2023

During the Soviet era, closed cities were off-limits to foreigners and unauthorized citizens. After the dissolution, many closed cities opened or were abandoned, but some Russian “ZATOs” (Закрытое административно-территориальное образование)...

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