Russian bureaucracy and the state : officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin

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Russian bureaucracy and the state : officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin

edited by Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey

Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides a rich and innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the work assesses the organization, personnel, and practices of officialdom across three different Russian regimes - tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881
  • D.K.Rowney & E.Huskey PART I: LATE TSARIST OFFICIALDOM The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction
  • D.K.Rowney Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization
  • D.K.Rowney Identities, Loyalties, and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine
  • S.Velychenko Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province: 1881-1914
  • B.Woodworth The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan
  • A.Morrison PART II: SOVIET OFFICIALDOM An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom
  • E.Huskey & D.K.Rowney The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms
  • G.Gill White Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction
  • D.Orlovsky Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration
  • M.Mespoulet Corruption among Officials and Anti-Corruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964
  • J.Heinzen Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department
  • M-P.Rey PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST OFFICIALDOM An Introduction to Postcommunist Officialdom
  • E.Huskey Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality
  • V.Gimpelson, V.Magun & R.J.Brym The Politics-Administration Nexus in Postcommunist Russia
  • E.Huskey Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia
  • C.Lefevre The Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements?
  • A.Barabashev, M.Krasnov, A.Obolonsky & T.Zaitseva Why is it so Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?
  • A.Obolonsky Conclusion
  • E.Huskey & D.K.Rowney

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