Revolutionary regimes have been among the most durable forms of authoritarianism in the modern era.
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Natasha BluthKristy Ironside discusses Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On March 6, 2015, the Jordan Center welcomed Kristy Ironside, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, to speak about the Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families that was decreed by Nikita Khrushchev at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.
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