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Summary Research in recent years has highlighted the limits of the Stalinist state. Asidefrom the numerous forms of resistance, both physical and symbolic, which theyfaced, Soviet bureaucracies under Stalin often lacked the resources orco-ordination to provide a consistent and effective system of administration. Inbetween campaigns, as one commentator has noted of the countryside in the late1930s, ‘neglect by Soviet power was as characteristic as coercion, andperhaps sometimes even as much resented’. Despite these limitations, theStalinist state did have the capacity to mobilise its…

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