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Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes Ser.: Substate Dictatorship : Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union by Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki (2020, Hardcover)

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Author: Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk. "Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have produced an impressive study.. A must for scholars of Stalinism and Soviet politics more generally.". --Gerald Easter,Russian Review.

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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300230818

ISBN-139780300230819

eBay Product ID (ePID)5038267579

Product Key Features

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSubstate Dictatorship : Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

Publication Year2020

SubjectWorld / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Public Affairs & Administration, Modern / 20th Century

TypeTextbook

AuthorOleg Khlevniuk, Yoram Gorlizki

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

SeriesYale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight29.2 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-955507

Reviews"This is a pathbreaking study of how the Soviet political system worked in the postwar era. Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have once again demonstrated their absolute mastery of the political history of the Soviet Union."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta "Remarkable. The authors integrate contemporary political science and political theory in their analysis of vast historical material."--Arturas Rozenas, New York University "A major contribution to the study of Soviet history and a must read for anyone interested in the rise, functioning, and demise of dictatorial and authoritarian regimes worldwide. A timely contribution indeed!"--Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University "No dictator rules alone. To understand Russia from Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev to the regime's decline, collapse, and dissolution, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk argue, is to appreciate the many dictatorships that were the Soviet Union. This important book marshals the best that history and social science have to offer to elucidate the anatomy of the Soviet dictatorship."--Milan Svolik, Yale University "Increasingly, people speak of the Kremlin, Moscow, and Russia interchangeably. This book is a reminder as to why it is essential to disaggregate Moscow from the regions and to focus on the workings of bureaucracy rather than the head of state. This meticulous, archive-based research results in one of the best accounts on networks and nomenklatura in the Soviet Union. Its findings on cooptation, coordination, control and camouflage at the subnational level remain relevant for understanding Russia today."--Alena Ledeneva, UCL, founder of the Global Informality Project, "[A] rigorous academic study."--Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs "This is a pathbreaking study of how the Soviet political system worked in the postwar era. Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have once again demonstrated their absolute mastery of the political history of the Soviet Union."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta "Remarkable. The authors integrate contemporary political science and political theory in their analysis of vast historical material."--Arturas Rozenas, New York University "A major contribution to the study of Soviet history and a must read for anyone interested in the rise, functioning, and demise of dictatorial and authoritarian regimes worldwide. A timely contribution indeed!"--Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University "No dictator rules alone. To understand Russia from Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev to the regime's decline, collapse, and dissolution, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk argue, is to appreciate the many dictatorships that were the Soviet Union. This important book marshals the best that history and social science have to offer to elucidate the anatomy of the Soviet dictatorship."--Milan Svolik, Yale University "Increasingly, people speak of the Kremlin, Moscow, and Russia interchangeably. This book is a reminder as to why it is essential to disaggregate Moscow from the regions and to focus on the workings of bureaucracy rather than the head of state. This meticulous, archive-based research results in one of the best accounts on networks and nomenklatura in the Soviet Union. Its findings on cooptation, coordination, control and camouflage at the subnational level remain relevant for understanding Russia today."--Alena Ledeneva, UCL, founder of the Global Informality Project, "[A] rigorous academic study."--Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs "Without qualification, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have produced an impressive study. It is arguably the most comprehensive empirical scope of centre-regional relations of the Soviet party-state, and it is organized in a coherent and insightful conceptual framework. . . . A must for scholars of Stalinism and Soviet politics more generally."--Gerald Easter, Russian Review "[A] major monograph. . . . Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the pillars of the Soviet dictatorship at the local level."--Donald Raleigh, Kritika Selected by Foreign Affairs as a "Best Book of 2021" "There is little doubt that this book is a valuable contribution of exemplary scholarship. . . . Substate Dictatorship is a pioneering work empirically as well as conceptually. . . . Will be an essential starting point for future research into all aspects of post-WWII Soviet history."--Yiannis Kokosalakis, Slavic Review "This is a pathbreaking study of how the Soviet political system worked in the postwar era. Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have once again demonstrated their absolute mastery of the political history of the Soviet Union."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta "Remarkable. The authors integrate contemporary political science and political theory in their analysis of vast historical material."--Arturas Rozenas, New York University "A major contribution to the study of Soviet history and a must read for anyone interested in the rise, functioning, and demise of dictatorial and authoritarian regimes worldwide. A timely contribution indeed!"--Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University "No dictator rules alone. To understand Russia from Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev to the regime's decline, collapse, and dissolution, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk argue, is to appreciate the many dictatorships that were the Soviet Union. This important book marshals the best that history and social science have to offer to elucidate the anatomy of the Soviet dictatorship."--Milan Svolik, Yale University "Increasingly, people speak of the Kremlin, Moscow, and Russia interchangeably. This book is a reminder as to why it is essential to disaggregate Moscow from the regions and to focus on the workings of bureaucracy rather than the head of state. This meticulous, archive-based research results in one of the best accounts on networks and nomenklatura in the Soviet Union. Its findings on cooptation, coordination, control and camouflage at the subnational level remain relevant for understanding Russia today."--Alena Ledeneva, UCL, founder of the Global Informality Project, "[A] rigorous academic study."--Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs "Without qualification, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have produced an impressive study. It is arguably the most comprehensive empirical scope of centre-regional relations of the Soviet party-state, and it is organized in a coherent and insightful conceptual framework. . . . A must for scholars of Stalinism and Soviet politics more generally."--Gerald Easter, Russian Review "[A] major monograph. . . . Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the pillars of the Soviet dictatorship at the local level."--Donald Raleigh, Kritika Selected by Foreign Affairs as a "Best Book of 2021" "This is a pathbreaking study of how the Soviet political system worked in the postwar era. Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have once again demonstrated their absolute mastery of the political history of the Soviet Union."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta "Remarkable. The authors integrate contemporary political science and political theory in their analysis of vast historical material."--Arturas Rozenas, New York University "A major contribution to the study of Soviet history and a must read for anyone interested in the rise, functioning, and demise of dictatorial and authoritarian regimes worldwide. A timely contribution indeed!"--Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University "No dictator rules alone. To understand Russia from Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev to the regime's decline, collapse, and dissolution, Gorlizki and Khlevniuk argue, is to appreciate the many dictatorships that were the Soviet Union. This important book marshals the best that history and social science have to offer to elucidate the anatomy of the Soviet dictatorship."--Milan Svolik, Yale University "Increasingly, people speak of the Kremlin, Moscow, and Russia interchangeably. This book is a reminder as to why it is essential to disaggregate Moscow from the regions and to focus on the workings of bureaucracy rather than the head of state. This meticulous, archive-based research results in one of the best accounts on networks and nomenklatura in the Soviet Union. Its findings on cooptation, coordination, control and camouflage at the subnational level remain relevant for understanding Russia today."--Alena Ledeneva, UCL, founder of the Global Informality Project

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal320.80947

SynopsisAn essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level "Gorlizki and Khlevniuk have produced an impressive study. . . . A must for scholars of Stalinism and Soviet politics more generally."--Gerald Easter, Russian Review How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Building on recent innovations in the theory of dictatorship, Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. They show how Soviet regional leaders, lacking Stalin's direct access to the means of repression, resorted to alternative strategies--especially through political exclusion and control of information--to build the local networks they needed to rule. The authors suggest that making sense of these networks is key to understanding how the dictatorship as a whole operated. Analytical scrutiny provides important clues to how the institutions of dictatorship changed over time, how conflicts within it were resolved, and how certain central policies, such as on the management of ethnic diversity, were implemented.

LC Classification NumberJS6060.G67 2020