Substate dictatorship : networks, loyalty, and institutional change in the Soviet Union / Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorlizki, Yoram, author.

Khlevni︠u︡k, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich), author.

Series:

Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes.

Yale scholarship online.

The Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Soviet Union.

Local government.

Authoritarianism--Soviet Union.

Authoritarianism.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 445 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, they chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on Usage

Introduction

1. Substate Dictators

2. Authoritarian Checks and Balances

3. Inside the Nomenklatura

4. Moscow, Center

5. The New Art of Survival

6. Substate Nationalism

7. Scandal in Riazan

8. Administrative Revolution

9. The New Course

10. Party Governors

Conclusion

Appendix A: A Note on Dictatorship

Appendix B: Units of Analysis

Appendix C: Sample

Appendix D: Political Networks

Appendix E: Archival Sources

Appendix F: The Nomenklatura

Appendix G: Regional Party Elections

Appendix H: Coding Rules

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-300-25560-8

OCLC:

1181838470