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Cover: 9781503628892 | Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism
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Secret Leviathan
Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism
Buch von Mark Harrison
Sprache: Englisch

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"The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states"--
"The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states"--
Über den Autor
Mark Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
2. The Secrecy/Capacity Tradeoff

3. The Secrecy Tax

4. Secrecy and Fear

5. Secret Policing and Discrimination

6. Secret Policing and Mistrust

7. Secrecy and the Uninformed Elite

8. Secrecy and Twenty-First-Century Authoritarianism
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 372
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781503628892
ISBN-10: 1503628892
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harrison, Mark
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 160 x 231 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Harrison
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
preigu-id: 122448715
Über den Autor
Mark Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
2. The Secrecy/Capacity Tradeoff

3. The Secrecy Tax

4. Secrecy and Fear

5. Secret Policing and Discrimination

6. Secret Policing and Mistrust

7. Secrecy and the Uninformed Elite

8. Secrecy and Twenty-First-Century Authoritarianism
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 372
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781503628892
ISBN-10: 1503628892
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Harrison, Mark
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 160 x 231 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Harrison
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
preigu-id: 122448715
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