Reconstructing the State
Subtitle: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521035873
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political History; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Political Science / General; Political Science : Political History; Soviet Union--Politics and government; General
First sentence: Throughout the twentieth century, the Soviet Russian state was most often depicted in the West as a modern Leviathan: omnipotent, imposing, and menacing.