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Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives

Paul Gregory¹; Mark Harrison²

¹ Professor of Economics, University of Houston, and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University. · ² Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham.

We survey recent research on the Soviet economy in the state, party, and military archives of the Stalin era. The archives have provided rich new evidence on the economic arrangements of a command system under a powerful dictator including Stalin's role in the making of the economic system and economic policy, Stalin's accumulation objectives and the constraints that limited his power to achieve them, the limits to administrative allocation, the information flows and incentives that governed the behavior of economic managers, the scope and significance of corruption and market-oriented behavior, and the prospects for economic reform.

DOI

10.1257/002205105774431225

Volume

43 (3)

Pages

721-761

Language

en

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