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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-100230575870

ISBN-139780230575875

eBay Product ID (ePID)84322493

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXv, 223 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRussian Politics from Lenin to Putin

SubjectWorld / Russian & Former Soviet Union, General, World / European, Europe / General

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorStephen Fortescue

SeriesSt Antony's Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-010801

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal947.084

Table Of ContentT.H. Rigby on Soviet and post-Soviet Russian Politics; S.Fortescue Institutionalization and Personalism in the Policy-making Process of the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia; S.Fortescue The Boss and his Team: Stalin and the Inner Circle, 1925-33; S.Fitzpatrick Building the Communist Future: Legitimation and the Soviet City; G.Gill Legitimation and Legitimacy in Russia Revisited; L.Holmes Perestroika as Revolution from Above; A.Brown How Much Did Popular Disaffection Contribute to the Collapse of the USSR? P.Reddaway Pantouflage a la russe. The Recruitment of Russian Political and Business Elites; E.Huskey Conclusion; S.Fortescue

SynopsisSeven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a mono-organisational society. While the book focuses on these major themes, individual chapters deal with wide-ranging and even unusual cases: Graeme Gill analyzes the legitimating functions of Moscow's architecture, Sheila Fitzpatrick uses the archives to draw a picture of Stalin 'the boss' dealing with his closest colleagues, Eugene Huskey provides a detailed description of post-Soviet Russian pantouflage, and Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway present their different takes on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse. Stephen Fortescue provides an overview of policy-making processes from Lenin and Putin, and Leslie Holmes updates the concept of goal-rational legitimacy., An exploration of themes pursued by T.H. Rigby, such as the personal versus the institutional, legitimacy, and the collapse of a mono-organizational society., Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a mono-organizational society. While the book focuses on these major themes, individual chapters deal with wide-ranging and even unusual cases: Graeme Gill analyzes the legitimating functions of Moscow's architecture, Sheila Fitzpatrick uses the archives to draw a picture of Stalin 'the boss' dealing with his closest colleagues, Eugene Huskey provides a detailed description of post-Soviet Russian pantouflage, and Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway present their different takes on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse. Stephen Fortescue provides an overview of policy-making processes from Lenin and Putin, and Leslie Holmes updates the concept of goal-rational legitimacy.

LC Classification NumberJN1-9692.2