Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition /
In old Russia, patron/client relations, 'clan' politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The old and the new
- Cults and personalities, politics and bodies
- The party personnel system: upstairs at the Central Committee
- The party personnel system: downstairs at the Central Committee
- Principled and personal conflicts
- Stalin and the clans I: the "King's men"
- Stalin and the clans II: who can vote? who can shoot?
- Stalin and the clans III: the last stand of the clans
- Epilogue. The new and the old.