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A millennium-scale reconstruction of how territory, fiscal-military institutions, serfdom, industrialization, Soviet planning, post-Soviet transition, resource rents, demography and war shaped the Russian economy and society.

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Russia: state capacity, mobilization and social transformation from Rus' to the 2026 war economy

A millennium-scale reconstruction of how territory, fiscal-military institutions, serfdom, industrialization, Soviet planning, post-Soviet transition, resource rents, demography and war shaped the Russian economy and society.

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