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Author Getty, J. Arch (John Arch), 1950- author.

Title Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition / J. Arch Getty.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (pages .)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The old and the new -- Cults and personalities, politics and bodies -- The party personnel system: upstairs at the Central Committee -- The party personnel system: downstairs at the Central Committee -- Principled and personal conflicts -- Stalin and the clans I: the "King's men" -- Stalin and the clans II: who can vote? who can shoot? -- Stalin and the clans III: the last stand of the clans -- Epilogue. The new and the old.
Summary In 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 20th-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
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Subject Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza -- Party work.
Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza.
Politics, Practical -- Soviet Union.
Politics, Practical.
Soviet Union.
Politics, Practical -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
Politics, Practical -- Social aspects.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1917-1936
Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Chronological Term 1936-1953
1917-1953
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Getty, J. Arch (John Arch), 1950- author. Practicing Stalinism. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013 9780300169294 (DLC) 2013000343 (OCoLC)827198374
ISBN 9780300198850 (electronic book)
030019885X (electronic book)
1299781055
9781299781054
9780300169294
0300169299