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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reality and Religion: Identifying the Existential Problem of Religious Diversity -- 2 An Epistemic Basis of Religious Diversity -- 3 Idolatry and the Testing of One's Faith -- 4 An Analysis of Humility -- 5 The Humility of Jesus and the Christian Tradition -- 6 Humility, Mysticism, and the Existential Problem of Religious Diversity -- Appendix: The Challenge of Religious Diversity, Again? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states.

""Contents""; ""Abbreviations and acronyms""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface and acknowledgements""; ""1 Merchants of death""; ""2 War by other means""; ""3 The evils of quarantine""; ""4 Quarantine and the empire of free trade""; ""5 Yellow fever resurgent""; ""6 A stranglehold on the East""; ""7 Plague and the global economy""; ""8 Protection or protectionism?""; ""9 Disease and globalization""; ""Conclusion Sanitary pasts, sanitary futures""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index

For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians-R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison-scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume's contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin's dictatorship, military and economic planning, and the industrial organization of the Soviet economy.Previously unknown details about Stalin's command system come to light, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private interests. The authors show that defense was at the core of Stalin's system of rule; single-minded management of the defense sector helped him keep his grip on power