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9780511523601
Series Statement:
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies 74
Content:
The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. Explanations of the emergence of a Stalinist political system have hitherto concentrated upon either impersonal factors, such as economic backwardness and the process of bureaucratisation, or Stalin the political actor and the intricacies of elite conflict. Graeme Gill examines the relationship between institutional structures and the conventions, which are created to shape the activities of individuals and considers centre/periphery relations. He divides this period into four sequential but distinct political systems and examines how the patterns of these relationships shaped the course of development to 1941. This book incorporates a great deal of new material. It will become essential reading for specialists in, and students of Soviet history with special reference to politics under Stalin, the 1920s and the 1930s
Content:
Introduction: what is Stalinism? -- Cohesive Oligarchy, 1917-1922 -- The structure of sub-national politics -- The structure of elite politics -- The Fractured Oligarchy 1922-1929 -- A strong party structure? -- The divided elite -- The Re-Formed Oligarchy 1930-1934 -- Regions under pressure -- The Stalinist elite? -- The Oligarchy Subdued 1935-1941 -- The enduring structures of sub-national politics -- Elite ravaged -- Conclusion: why Stalinism?
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521382663
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521529365
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Print version ISBN 9780521382663
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511523601
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