Stalin’s Terror and the Long-Term Political Effects of ...

Stalin s Terror and the Long-Term PoliticalEffects of Mass RepressionYuri M. Zhukov and Roya TalibovaDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of MichiganJune 22, 2017 AbstractRepression has a Long-Term negative effect on Political millions of arrest records from archival documents, and polling-station level election results, we examine how past exposure to repres-sion during the Stalin era has affected voter turnout in Putin s identify the effect of repression on voting, we use an instrumen-tal variable design, exploiting exogenous variation in repression dueto the structure of mid-century Soviet railroads.

Russian locality’s exposure to repression during the Stalin era, and the effect of this repression on local voting patterns between 2003 and 2012. We find that communities more heavily repressed under Stalin are signifi-

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