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Managing the secret state

Mark Harrison [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 17 May 2019

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.

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Topics:  Economic history [7]

Tags:  Soviet Union [8], dictatorship [9], KGB [10], Russian Revolution [11], communism [12]

The paper on Stasi activity in Germany Mark refers to can be found here [13].

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/managing-secret-state

Links
[1] https://voxeu.org/user/221999
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[4] https://voxeu.org/article/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-life-and-afterlife
[5] https://voxeu.org/article/costing-secrecy
[6] https://voxeu.org/article/russia-s-national-income-war-and-revolution-1913-1928
[7] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/economic-history
[8] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1117
[9] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/952
[10] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/10084
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3474
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2327
[13] https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/9245/the-economic-costs-of-mass-surveillance-insights-from-stasi-spying-in-east-germany