Corporation of Impostors: The Shadow Economy and Corruption in Stalin's USSR
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Corporation of Impostors: The Shadow Economy and Corruption in Stalin's USSR
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In early 1948, Nikolai Pavlenko, the former chairman of a cooperative construction artel, having given himself the rank of colonel of engineering troops and his subordinates other military ranks, created a shadow organization with the help of false documents. This fictitious corporation, which at different times was called the Department of Military Construction No. 1 and No. 10, concluded numerous contracts with state structures and in a few years built dozens of sections of highways and railroads in the USSR. How was Pavlenko's organization arranged? How did it manage to exist for such a long period of time - from 1948 to 1952? In his book Oleg Khlevniuk, based on new archival materials, explores the history of Pavlenko as an example of social mimicry, adaptation to life under totalitarianism, and at the same time as part of the Soviet shadow economy, demonstrating the hidden realities of social development of the country in late Stalinist times. Oleg Khlevniuk - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Soviet and Post-Soviet History, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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