Russian bureaucracy
Subtitle: power and pathology
By: Karl W. Ryavec
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Bureaucracy -- Russia -- History; Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union -- History; Bureaucracy -- Russia (Federation)
Description: "This study provides an original, clear-eyed view of the true nature and operation of Russia's state bureaucracy from the imperial period to the present, including the Putin presidency. The only book-length exploration of the problems and deficiencies of Russian bureaucracy since tsarist times, this detailed work sheds important new light on Russian public administration, an often-overlooked but key barrier to Russian normalization and democratization."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: purpose, definitions, significance; title: Origins and development: tsarist-Soviet bureaucratic continuity; title: Power and problems; title: Process, culture and style, or "the way things work"; title: Power, politics and resistance; title: Conclusion