The editorial office regrets an error made by the editors in a review by Elena Osokina of James Heinzen's The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943–1953, vol. 77, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 538–39. The following text:
Nevertheless, according to Heinzen, the conditions that “put many Soviet people at risk, while tempting officials to benefit from their offices” during and after WWII, such as “the dislocation of populations, poverty, extraordinary shortages of housing and goods, the disruption of the courts and the legal system, breakdowns in goods distribution, and famines” (37) also apply to the 1930s, which were marked by colossal migration caused by industrialization and collectivization, massive law abuse during the Great Terror, and mass famine in the first half of the decade.
was originally:
However, the conditions that, according to Heinzen, during and after WWII, “put many Soviet people at risk, while tempting officials to benefit from their offices”, such as “the dislocation of populations, poverty, extraordinary shortages of housing and goods, the disruption of the courts and the legal system, breakdowns in goods distribution, and famines” (p. 37), also apply to the 1930s, which were marked by colossal migration caused by industrialization and collectivization, massive law abuse during the Great Terror, and mass famine in the first half of the decade.
