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Secretaries. Regional Networks in the USSR from Stalin to Brezhnev

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Secretaries. Regional Networks in the USSR from Stalin to Brezhnev
19.99 €

How do authoritarian systems operate and change? Historians who study personal dictatorship in the USSR of the 1930s often seek an answer to this question by focusing on the personality of the leader. However, Stalin was not the only autocrat in the USSR: he relied on a significant corps of grassroots leaders, primarily party secretaries in the constituent republics and regional structures. Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlitsky address the mechanisms of the functioning of the political regime in the USSR at the grassroots level and show how Soviet regional leaders created and consolidated their networks of loyalty. By tracing the transformation of these networks over several decades, from Stalin to Brezhnev, the authors show how the grassroots institutions of dictatorship gradually transformed into a kind of party governorates based on the consolidation of regional nomenclature, the principles of party seniority, cadres' rooting, concessions to ethnic diversity, and conflict avoidance. Oleg Khlevniuk is a doctor of historical sciences, professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Yoram Gorlitsky is a professor at the University of Manchester.

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