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Mark Harrison Right now I'm working on two things. One is a paper about preventive repression in the Soviet Union, which is joint work with Eugenia Nazrullaeva. The…moreRight now I'm working on two things. One is a paper about preventive repression in the Soviet Union, which is joint work with Eugenia Nazrullaeva. The other is a collaborative project on the history of economic warfare, which Stephen Broadberry and I are leading together.(less)

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Mark Harrison My most recent book is *Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism,* to be published on 6 June. I was inspired to write it by…moreMy most recent book is *Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism,* to be published on 6 June. I was inspired to write it by three things. One, my interest in communism, which arose from growing up during the Cold War and visiting the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. At this time I learned that Soviet communism was super-secretive. Two, during the 1990s I spent time working on the Soviet defence industry in formerly secret Russian archives: there I found that Soviet factory managers and engineers habitually exploited state secrecy to conceal self-interested behaviour. From this I learned that secrecy is complex and intriguing. Three, in the 2000s I came across the archives of the KGB (secret police) of Soviet Lithuania, which showed me that the KGB was in charge of the whole system (or "regime") of secrecy.(less)

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	The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison (Studies in Macroeconomic History) by Mark Harrison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hugh Rockoff (Contributor), Peter Howlett (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accounting for War Soviet: Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940–1945 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 45) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economics of Coercion and Conflict by Mark Harrison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jari Eloranta (Contributor), Nikolaus Wolf (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pervaia Mirovaia Voina, Grazhdanskaia Voina i Vosstanovlenie: Natsional'nyi Dokhod Rossii v 1913-1928 gg. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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