Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia

by Gerald M. Easter

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035872
• ISBN13: 9780521035873
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"