Russian bureaucracy and the state: officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin

The Russian State and Administration 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 b tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist. INDICE: Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881; D.K.Rowney ; E.Huskey - PART I: LATE TSARIST OFFICIALDOM - The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction; D.K.Rowney - Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization; D.K.Rowney - Identities, Loyalties, and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine; S.Velychenko - Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist StateOfficials in Estland Province: 1881-1914; B.Woodworth - The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan; A.Morrison - PART II: SOVIET OFFICIALDOM - An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom; E.Huskey ; D.K.Rowney -The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms; G.Gill - White Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction; D.Orlovsky -Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration; M.Mespoulet - Corruption among Officials and Anti-Corruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964; J.Heinzen - Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department; M-P.Rey - PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST OFFICIALDOM - An Introduction to Postcommunist Officialdom; E.Huskey - Hiring andPromoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality; V.Gimpelson, V.Magun ; R.J.Brym - The Politics-Administration Nexus in Postcommunist Russia; E.Huskey - Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia; C.Lefevre - The Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements?; A.Barabashev, M.Krasnov, A.Obolonsky ; T.Zaitseva - Why is it so Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?; A.Obolonsky - Conclusion; E.Huskey ; D.K.Rowney -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22884-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés