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The construction of the Soviet state and its later disintegration are inseparable from the creation of the monstrous machine of its totalitarian regime known as the military industrial complex (MIC). We are in agreement with the opinion that ‘the Soviet Union did not have a military industrial complex (MIC), it was one’ (Mikheyev, 1996:134).
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© 2000 Vincent Edwards, Gennady Polonsky and Avgust Polonsky
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Edwards, V., Polonsky, G., Polonsky, A. (2000). The Military Enterprises: Conversion or Destruction. In: The Russian Province After Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983232_5
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