LEADER 03860nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910452654303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-19885-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300198850 035 $a(CKB)2550000001110692 035 $a(OCoLC)855020310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10740010 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12448454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10880124 035 $a(PQKB)11146689 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000175994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421260 035 $a(DE-B1597)485707 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300198850 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740010 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL509356 035 $a(OCoLC)923604251 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001110692 100 $a20130109d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPracticing Stalinism$b[electronic resource] $eBolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition /$fJ. Arch Getty 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-16929-9 311 $a1-299-78105-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tSoviet Organizational Acronyms and Abbreviations --$tNote on Transliteration and Party/Government Terms --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Old and the New --$t2. Cults and Personalities, Politics and Bodies --$t3. The Party Personnel System: Upstairs at the Central Committee --$t4. The Party Personnel System: Downstairs at the Central Committee --$t5. Principled and Personal Conflicts --$t6. Stalin and the Clans I: The "King's Men" --$t7. Stalin and the Clans II: Who Can Vote? Who Can Shoot? --$t8. Stalin and the Clans III: The Last Stand of the Clans --$tEpilogue. The New and the Old --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day. Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans ("family circles") after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930's. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows. 606 $aPolitics, Practical$zSoviet Union 606 $aPolitics, Practical$xSocial aspects$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitics, Practical 615 0$aPolitics, Practical$xSocial aspects 676 $a324.247/07509041 700 $aGetty$b J. Arch$g(John Arch),$f1950-$0675341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452654303321 996 $aPracticing Stalinism$92490237 997 $aUNINA