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

by J. Arch Getty

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300169299
• ISBN13: 9780300169294
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 10.0"