Economic History of Warfare and State Formation by Jari Eloranta Eric Golson Andrei Markevich & Nikolaus Wolf

Author:Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich & Nikolaus Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

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Probit regression model is employed. Independent variables, except age, are dummies. Standard errors are in brackets

***indicates p-value < 0.01, **p-value < 0.05, *p-value < 0.1

These results provide support for the interpretation of the Great terror as a campaign conducted by the dictator to replace the existing elite with a new one. Indeed, both the party membership and a high rank in the Soviet hierarchy doubled the probability of repression for an average GUMP employee. Higher education as a predictor of arrest might be viewed as further evidence in support of this interpretation. A coalition of party leaders together with non-party “old” technical specialists inherited by the Communists from the previous regime ran Soviet industry in the mid-1930s. For years after the revolution, the Bolsheviks had to rely on “old” specialists because of a shortage of their own cadres with higher education. The Great terror changed this policy. I explore political motives of Stalin’s oppression policy further in Table 3.Table 3Party membership and repressions at the Chief Administration of Metallurgy

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