01921cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001420 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451874341 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Grossman, Hershel. Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union / Hershel Grossman, Dmitry Gershenson. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000. 1 online resource (22 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the rule of the nomenklatura and in either deterring or defeating foreign enemies of the Soviet Union. We assume that the nomenklatura determined the extent of cooption and the intensity of political repression by equating their perceived marginal benefits and marginal costs. We use this assumption to construct an account of the historical evolution of policies of cooption and political repression in the Soviet Union. Mode of access: Internet Choice Problem imf Members Of The Nomenklatura imf Nomenklatura's Agent imf Nomenklatura imf WP imf Russian Federation imf Gershenson, Dmitry. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/201 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2000/201/001.2000.issue-201-en.xml IMF e-Library