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The Soviet Enterprise: What Have We Learned from the Archives?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Martin Kragh
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Abstract

Business historians have hitherto paid only scant attention to the Soviet experience. This article is an attempt to summarize the knowledge we have gained in the two decades following the collapse of the Soviet economy, and draws on published research, document volumes, and previously unexplored archival sources. In the conclusion, I make the case that the Soviet experience can provide relevant comparative examples for the field of business history.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 360 - 394
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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