UID:
edocfu_9959245249702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (348 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-44622-6
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9786610446223
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0-19-152285-6
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0-585-36605-5
Inhalt:
Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet rule. It is also the first to make full use of the rich sources available since the collapse of Communism. The authors profile theelite as a whole and looks more closely at fifteen individual members, identifying four elite generations. The book e
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1. Revolutionaries in Power, 1917-1923; 2. Old Bolsheviks, Socialist Construction, and the Purges, 1923-1939; 3. Stalin's New Elite, 1939-1956; 4. Stalinist Generation, 'Leninist Norms', 1956-1966; 5. The Elite Consolidates, 1966-1985; 6. Challenge and Crisis, 1985-1991; 7. Elite and Society; 8. An Evolving Elite; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-159984-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-829738-6
Sprache:
Englisch
