Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin
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Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin

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Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin

About this book

Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a mono-organisational society. While the book focuses on these major themes, individual chapters deal with wide-ranging and even unusual cases: Graeme Gill analyzes the legitimating functions of Moscow's architecture, Sheila Fitzpatrick uses the archives to draw a picture of Stalin 'the boss' dealing with his closest colleagues, Eugene Huskey provides a detailed description of post-Soviet Russian pantouflage, and Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway present their different takes on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse. Stephen Fortescue provides an overview of policy-making processes from Lenin and Putin, and Leslie Holmes updates the concept of goal-rational legitimacy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. 1 T.H. Rigby on Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Politics
  7. 2 Institutionalization and Personalism in the Policy-making Process of the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia
  8. 3 The Boss and His Team: Stalin and the Inner Circle, 1925–33
  9. 4 Building the Communist Future: Legitimation and the Soviet City
  10. 5 Legitimation and Legitimacy in Russia Revisited
  11. 6 Perestroika as Revolution from Above
  12. 7 How Much Did Popular Disaffection Contribute to the Collapse of the USSR?
  13. 8 Pantouflage à la russe: The Recruitment of Russian Political and Business Elites
  14. 9 Conclusion
  15. Index