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Russian bureaucracy and the state : officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin / edited by Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey.
- Title
- Russian bureaucracy and the state : officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin / edited by Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey.
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.
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- Description
- xii, 346 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides a rich and innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the work assesses the organization, personnel, and practices of officialdom across three different Russian regimes - tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist.
- Subject
- Public administration > Russia (Federation)
- Public administration > Soviet Union
- Public administration > Russia
- Public administration > Russia (Federation) > History
- Public administration > Soviet Union > History
- Public administration > Russia > History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Executive Branch
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration
- Politics and government
- Public administration
- Bürokratie
- Verwaltung
- Russia (Federation) > Politics and government
- Soviet Union > Politics and government
- Russia > Politics and government > 1801-1917
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-337) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : Russian officialdom since 1881 / Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey -- pt. I. Late Tsarist officialdom. 2. Institutional structure of late Tsarist officialdom : an introduction / Don K. Rowney ; 3. Imperial Russian officialdom during modernization / Don K. Rowney ; 4. Identities, loyalties and government service in Tsarist Ukraine / Stephen Velychenko ; 5. Multi-ethnicity and Estonian Tsarist Slate Officials in Estland Province, 1881-1914 / Bradley D. Woodworth ; 6. Military bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan / Alexander Morrison -- pt. II. Soviet officialdom. 7. Introduction to Soviet officialdom / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney ; 8. Communist Party and the weakness of bureaucratic norms / Graeme Gill ; 9. White-collar workers in the second revolution and postwar reconstruction / Daniel Orlovsky ; 10. Survival strategies in the Soviet bureaucracy : the case of the statistics administration / Martine Mespoulet ; 11. Corruption among officials and anticorruption drives in the USSR, 1945-1964 / James Heinzen ; 12. Soviet foreign policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era : the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department / Marie-Pierre Rey -- pt. III. Post-Communist officialdom. 13. Introduction to post-Communist officialdom / Engene Huskey ; 14. Hiring and promoting young civil servants : Weberian ideals versus Russian reality / Vladimir Gimpelson, Vladimir Magun and Robert J. Brym ; 15. Politics-administration nexus in post-communist Russia / Eugene Huskey ; 16. Delivering state services to the population : the development of state welfare agencies in post-Soviet Russia / Cecile Lefevre ; 17. Fate of Russian officialdom : fundamental reform or technical improvements? / Alexei Barabashev, Mikhail Krasnov, Alexander Obolonsky and Tatiana Zaitseva ; 18. Why is it so difficult to reform Russian officialdom? / Alexander Obolonsky ; 19. Conclusion / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney.
- ISBN
- 9780230228849 (hbk.)
- 0230228844 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 317926852
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library