DHSE · Dictatorship, Hierarchy, and the Stalinist Economy: the Soviet Defence Industry 1929 -1953
6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“
- Период
- 2005-12-15 → 2007-12-14
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- 161 428 €
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- 1
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Накратко на български
Съветската отбранителна индустрия между 1929 и 1953 г. разкрива как Сталин е контролирал изпълнението на заповеди от подчинените си. Анализът помага да се разбере как функционират и се стабилизират суровите авторитарни режими в света.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Final Activity Report Summary - DHSE (Dictatorship, hierarchy, and the Stalinist Economy: the Soviet defence industry 1929 -1953)
The resilience and stability of harsh authoritarian regimes in the world today is a key issue of international relations. The first problem of any dictator is to ensure that, when a command is issued, subordinates carry it out faithfully and do not ignore it or reinterpret in their own interests. The project looks at how this problem was solved under Stalin in the Soviet Union, one of the best documented dictatorships in history. The study is focused on the defence industry, which Stalin scrutinised particularly closely because of its importance to his external objectives. The research has shown that Stalin understood excellently the problem of controlling implementation. One issue was that, when things went wrong, he did not know whether it was the fault of his agents or the fault of circumstances beyond his control. He evolved a range of responses, sometimes punishing the agents and sometimes giving them more time or resources to finish the task. Another problem was that, if he let the control apparatus become too large, he would lose control of it; who would control the controllers? He responded to this by keeping it small and limiting its responsibilities. Thus, contrary to his popular image, Stalin did accept that he could not control everything perfectly.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The project will investigate the forces shaping the working arrangements of Stalin¿s dictatorship in the Soviet economy, using the detailed documentation now available in the Russian state and economic archives as its evidence base. Its ultimate motivatio n is to understand how a dictator chose to rule subject to the resources available and other constraints that limited his choices, and the influences on his choices that arose from within his own regime. The working arrangements of Stalin¿s regime were hi ghly variable over time. It appears that Stalin exercised choice between two principal means of securing the compliance of his agents and so enforcing his rule: a small apparatus that relied on terror, or a larger apparatus that relied less on terror, more on the provision of assistance and rewards. A larger apparatus that provided assistance and rewards was expensive, but terror also had costly repercussions. Officials at lower levels had their own preferences. Investigation will focus specifically on the defence industry, notable for its high priority and the detailed attention that it received from Stalin and his colleagues. The research will examine the interests and motivations at work at higher and lower levels of the apparatus, and their interaction. Starting from existing theories of the political economy of dictatorship using principal-agent models and simple games, the methodology of the research will be to develop further theoretical insights using newly available historical evidence, largely quali tative in character, to substantiate or modify assumptions and test predictions. The scientist in charge is an established EU-based scholar while the applicant is a young Russian researcher of great promise. The host institutions, the University of Warwick and the Plekhanov Academy, are of comparable international stature and will provide the researcher with excellent research support and further training in economic analysis and quantitative methods. ""
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · COVENTRYКоординаторОбединеното кралство
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз