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Coercion, compliance and the collapse of the soviet command economy [PDF]

Are command systems that rest on coercion inherently unstable, and did the Soviet economy collapse for this reason? Postwar evidence is inconsistent with the hypothesis that the Soviet economy was unstable. If it was not unstable, why did it collapse?
Harrison, Mark
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

When Communication Enables Catastrophe: Nuclear Risk and the Short Lifetimes of Technological Civilizations: A Bayesian Scenario Analysis of Civilizational Survival and the Fermi Paradox. [PDF]

Risk Anal
Alfano V.
europepmc   +1 more source

The History of Anthrax Weaponization in the Soviet Union. [PDF]

Cureus, 2023
Nikolakakis I, Michaleas SN, Panayiotakopoulos G, Papaioannou TG, Karamanou M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Religion in the USSR - Religious and Confessional Groups in RSFSR and USSR (1918 - 1991)

, 2019
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to examine the relationship between church and state in the USSR at various times. This work contains an introduction, the main part, which consists of six chapters, a conclusion and a list of literature.
Semina, Aleksandra
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Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich, Einat Gilboa‐Oppenheim, Lea Taragin‐Zeller, Tanya Zion‐Waldoks   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of applied foot and mouth disease-providing measures in the Republic of Armenia: A retrospective study. [PDF]

Open Vet J
Voskanyan HE, Markosyan TH, Simonyan JT, Mirzoyan MS, Shahazizyan NA, Minasyan LM, Kharatyan SA, Simonyan LL.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Atomic Energy Commission Report NP-2252

On 14 November 1949, The General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences USSR met in the academy's Conference Hall to discuss the 1950 plans of the ...
The General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences USSR
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Explaining Soviet collapse

, 2017
Explaining the collapse of the Soviet system is different to explaining the causes of perestroika. The causes of perestroika are generally agreed upon: reform was initiated because of economic decline, Soviet loss of international power relative to Cold ...
NEIL ROBINSON (12350515)
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The Symbolic Organisation of Political Antagonism: An Integrative Model of Cultural and Social Polarisation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder, Matthias Revers, Marcus Morgan, María Luengo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source