Practicing Stalinism - Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Informationen zum Autor J. Arch Getty is professor of history at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and beyond. "A compelling account of the continuities and persistent practices of governance in Russian history that shaped both the way Stalin ruled the Soviet Union as well as how Putin dominates Russia today. Getty deploys his vast knowledge of Stalinism to demonstrate that patrimonial patterns of leadership and popular deference were as much a part of the integrated Soviet system as were the bureaucratic institutional norms of the state."--Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan--Ronald G. Suny Zusammenfassung In old Russia! patron/client relations! "clan" politics! and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Using documents from the communist archives! the author shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.

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• Authors: J. Arch Getty, J.Arch Getty
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2013
• EAN: 9780300169294
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16929-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Post-Soviet