S2 Ep20: Managing the secret state
May 17, 2019•19 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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Episode description
Did the KGB manage its informers using the iron fist or the invisible hand? Mark Harrison tells Tim Phillips how the state motivated and disciplined its secret workforce.
Read more of Mark's research on the Soviet Union here, here, and here. And the paper on Stasi activity in Germany he referred to is here.
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