Reconstructing The State: Personal Networks And Elite Identity In Soviet Russia (cambridge Studies In Comparative Politics)
by Gerald M. Easter /
2000 / English / PDF
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Why do some state building efforts succeed when others fail? Using
newly available archival sources, this book presents a new
explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet
state. The study explains how personal networks and elite identity
served as informal sources of power that influenced state strength.
Reconstructing the State also offers new interpretations of how the
weak Bolshevik state extended its reach to a vast rural and
multi-ethnic periphery as well as the dynamics of the
center-regional conflict in the 1930s that culminated in the Great
Terror.
Why do some state building efforts succeed when others fail? Using
newly available archival sources, this book presents a new
explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet
state. The study explains how personal networks and elite identity
served as informal sources of power that influenced state strength.
Reconstructing the State also offers new interpretations of how the
weak Bolshevik state extended its reach to a vast rural and
multi-ethnic periphery as well as the dynamics of the
center-regional conflict in the 1930s that culminated in the Great
Terror.
