Russian bureaucracy and the state
Subtitle: officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin
By: edited by Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780230228849
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881 / Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey; title: Pt. I. Late Tsarist Officialdom; title: 2. Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction / Don K. Rowney; title: 3. Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization / Don K. Rowney; title: 4. Identities, Loyalties and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine / Stephen Velychenko; title: 5. Multi-ethnicity and Estonian Tsarist Slate Officials in Estland Province, 1881-1914 / Bradley D. Woodworth; title: 6. Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan / Alexander Morrison; title: Pt. II. Soviet Officialdom; title: 7. Introduction to Soviet Officialdom / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney; title: 8. Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms / Graeme Gill; title: 9. White-Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction / Daniel Orlovsky; title: 10. Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration / Martine Mespoulet; title: 11. Corruption among Officials and Anticorruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964 / James Heinzen; title: 12. Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department / Marie-Pierre Rey; title: Pt. III. Post-communist Officialdom; title: 13. Introduction to Post-communist Officialdom / Engene Huskey; title: 14. Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality / Vladimir Gimpelson, Vladimir Magun and Robert J. Brym; title: 15. Politics-Administration Nexus in Post-communist Russia / Eugene Huskey; title: 16. Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia / Cecile Lefevre; title: 17. Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements? / Alexei Barabashev, Mikhail Krasnov, Alexander Obolonsky and Tatiana Zaitseva; title: 18. Why Is It So Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom? / Alexander Obolonsky; title: 19. Conclusion / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney.