Black Market Technology in the U.S.S.R.: or, The Peasants' Art of Starving

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The longer the relatively peaceful period without war, revolution or mass repression lasts, the more the Soviet socio-economic system takes on the appearance of a colossal black market. This black market exists and develops openly, right before everyone's eyes. Within its framework, it is possible to feed the country with potatoes or to build a diesel locomotive, to enroll one's son in the university or to buy an agronomist diploma, to repair a tractor or to obtain a plot in Moscow's “exclusive” cemetery. Everything is bought and sold outside plans and regulations. One hand washes the other. But who wins?

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