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(Re)Building a Garrison State: Imagining Russia’s Economy Post-war

Nicholas Trickett on embedded macroeconomic distortions and the illusion of wartime resilience
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Authors
  • Galiya Ibragimova

    Political scientist, expert on Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  • Dmitri Stratievski

    Political scientist and historian (FU Berlin), and director of the Berlin Center for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Zentrum Berlin e.V.).
  • Alexey Uvarov

    Political Scientist
  • Rasmus G. D. Hardt

    Head of Section, Program Manager, Royal Danish Defence College
  • Lærke Holst

    Research Assistant at the Royal Danish Defence College
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