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The long collapse of the Soviet economy did not end with the dissolution of the USSR. Governments quickly changed, but the infrastructure of the Soviet economy did not. From the metalworks of Magnitogorsk to the nickel mines of frozen Norilsk, the economy bequeathed to modern Russia by Stalin, Khrus...

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Main Author: Miller, Chris
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Language:English
Published: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630175.003.0009
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