Reconstructing the State
Subtitle: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521660853
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Political economy; Social Stratification; Political History; Soviet Union; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political Science / General; Soviet Union--Politics and government; Elite (Social sciences); Sociology - General; History & Theory - General; Central-local government relat; Central-local government relations; Policy networks; Politics and government
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.