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Record Nr.

UNISA996472055403316

Autore

Fainsod Merle

Titolo

How Russia Is Ruled / / Merle Fainsod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2014]

©1963

ISBN

0-674-18918-3

Edizione

[Rev. ed. Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (714 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Russian Research Center Studies ; ; 11

Disciplina

320.9/47/08

Soggetti

Aspects juridiques

Cadre institutionnel

Political science

Politieke stelsels

Politik

Politisches System

Staatsinrichting

Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936

HISTORY / General

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- PART ONE. The Pursuit of Power -- Chapter 1. The Seedbed of Revolution -- Chapter 2. Bolshevism before 1917 -- Chapter 3. The Road to Power -- Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Power -- PART TWO. The Role of the Party -- Chapter 5. The Dictatorship of the Party in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 6. The Growth of the Party Apparatus -- Chapter 7. Party Organization, Activities, and Problems -- Chapter 8. The Composition and Social Structure of the Party -- Chapter 9. The Komsomol - Youth under Dictatorship -- Chapter 10. The Party Command - Politburo and Presidium -- PART THREE. Instruments of Rule -- Chapter 11. Constitutional Myths and Political Realities -- Chapter 12. The Control of the Bureaucracy - Public Administration in the Soviet Union --



Chapter 13. Terror as a System of Power -- Chapter 14. The Party and the Armed Forces -- PART FOUR. Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 15. Management and Labor in Soviet Industry -- Chapter 16. Controls and Tensions in Soviet Agriculture -- Chapter 17. The Soviet Political System - Problems and Prospects -- APPENDIX. Khrushchevism in Retrospect -- List of Readings, Notes, Index -- A LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS - CLASSIFIED BY TOPICS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Backmatter