Storming in agent recruitment: Evidence from declassified Soviet secret service files
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Recruitment; Cycles; Storming; KGB; Soviet Union;All these keywords.
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- D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
- P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
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