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Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty, J. Arch

Hardcover

General World HistoryHistoriographyRussian History

ISBN10: 0300169299
ISBN13: 9780300169294
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Aug 27 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.78 Depth: 10.04
Language: English
In old Russia, patron/client relations, clan politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day. Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans (family circles) after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows.

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