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S2 Ep20: Managing the secret state

EPISODE · May 17, 2019 · 18 MIN

S2 Ep20: Managing the secret state

from VoxTalks Economics · host VoxTalks

Did the KGB manage its informers using the iron fist or the invisible hand? Mark Harrison tells Tim Phillips how the state motivated and disciplined its secret workforce.Read more of Mark's research on the Soviet Union here, here, and here. And the paper on Stasi activity in Germany he referred to is here.

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