Grand theater
Subtitle: regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941
By: Larry E. Holmes.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780739135914; 9780739135938
Subjects: Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union -- History; Regionalism -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A script of perfection, failure, blame; title: Ascent into darkness: escalating negativity, 1931-1941; title: A symbiosis of errors: the personal, professional, and political, 1931-1938; title: The art of complaint, 1931-1938; title: Power to the people and to the state: great performances by V.P. Bulygina and E.T. Chernykh; title: "My friend, I've hit rock bottom": politics and friendship; title: A tragedy: the terror; title: Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941; title: "Stop this petty tyranny": the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941; title: Proprietary professionalism: mine by right, 1938-1941.