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M?nsson, Per: "Minervas uggla och Sovjetunionens fall", Sociologisk forskning, 4, 1994, ss. 3-31, tils. 28 sider.
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Zaslavsky, Victor: The Neo-Stalinist State : Class, Ethnicity, and Consensus in Soviet Society. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994) ss. 3-21, 44-164 tils. 138 sider.