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Unbroken Links? From Imperial Human Capital to Post-Communist Modernisation

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The article explores imperial human capital affects on current human capital and democracy variations in Russia's regions based on author-constructed datasets with imperial and post-communist statistics. Pre-communist education is a significant predictor of modernisation, which in studies of Russian regions explains a large share of regional democratic variation. Pre-communist education also apparently positively affects post-communist democracy. The communists did not build on a clean slate; nor did they overwrite pre-communist human capital stocks in the regions. The spatially uneven structural conditions related to frontier settlement and population movements after the emancipation of the serfs may also have a bearing on human capital variations.

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  • Tomila Lankina, 2012. "Unbroken Links? From Imperial Human Capital to Post-Communist Modernisation," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(4), pages 623-643.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:64:y:2012:i:4:p:623-643
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.675666
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    1. Leonard,Carol S., 2015. "Agrarian Reform in Russia," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107546233.
    2. Kahn, Jeffrey, 2002. "Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199246991.
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    1. Buggle, Johannes C. & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire," BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2018, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    2. Lankina, Tomila V. & Libman, Alexander & Obydenkova, Anastassia, 2016. "Appropriation and subversion: pre-communist literacy, communist party saturation, and post-communist democratic outcomes," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 63833, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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