Seven Soviet-era tips for running a successful police state
The Soviet Union was one of the world’s more durable police states – and it is now one of the best documented. From Stalin’s…
Mark Harrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also a research associate of Warwick’s ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy and a research fellow of the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University. He writes on the history of communism and the economics of fighting, stealing, cheating, lying, and spying
The Soviet Union was one of the world’s more durable police states – and it is now one of the best documented. From Stalin’s…