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Harrison, Mark (2013) Secrecy, fear and transaction costs : the business of Soviet forced labour in the early Cold War. Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 65 (Number 6). pp. 1112-1135. doi:10.1080/09668136.2013.815417 ISSN 0966-8136.
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Abstract
What does it cost to do business under a dictator? In 1949 the Soviet state had entered its most secretive phase. One of the Gulag's most important secrets was the location of its labour camps. As this secret was guarded more closely, camps found it increasingly difficult to do business without disclosing a state secret: their own location. For months and then years Gulag officials worked around this dilemma, expending considerable efforts. Rather than resolve it, they eventually normalised it. This study of the transaction costs of an autocratic regime raises basic questions about how Soviet secrecy was calibrated.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Forced labor -- Soviet Union, Soviet Union -- Economic conditions, Soviet Union -- Economic policy, Dictatorship -- Soviet Union | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Europe-Asia Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0966-8136 | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 65 | ||||
Number: | Number 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1112-1135 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09668136.2013.815417 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | Working paper: Harrison, M. (2011). Secrecy, fear, and transaction costs : the business of Soviet forced labour in the early Cold War. Coventry: Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, Department of Economics, University of Warwick. (CAGE Online Working Paper Series no. 47/2011). http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44439 | ||||
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