RECONSTRUCTING THE STATE by Gerald M. Easter ( 9780521035873 )

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Title:

RECONSTRUCTING THE STATE
PERSONAL NETWORKS AND ELITE IDENTITY IN SOVIET RUSSIA

By:

Gerald M. Easter

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Paperback

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0521035872

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 March, 2007

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Pages:

240

Description:

Using archival sources, this book presents an explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet state.

Synopsis:

Why do some state-building efforts succeed when others fail? Using formerly unavailable archival sources, this book presents an explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet state. The study explains how personal networks and elite identity served as informal sources of power that influenced state strength. Reconstructing the State also offers alternative interpretations of how the weak Bolshevik state extended its reach to a vast rural and multi-ethnic periphery as well as the dynamics of the center-regional conflict in the 1930s that culminated in the Great Terror.

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