Soviet departmentality
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Soviet departmentality
29.99 €
What is departmentality? What do we know about this phenomenon, which was part of political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union? Does knowledge of departmentality give us the opportunity to better understand the Soviet state? This collective monograph, for the first time in Russian historiography, attempts to take a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of Soviet departmentality and interpret the institutional history of the USSR from a new perspective of the departmental approach. Such an analytical position means not just considering departmentality as an object of research, but adjusting the research optics, where departmentality acts as a kind of prism that allows us to describe and explain various spaces of Soviet history. This theoretical framework reveals departmentality through the categories of the management system, material embodiment, social practice and discourse.
The authors of the book show the most diverse aspects of Soviet reality in which departmental relations were defined and reflected: the use of rhetoric about state interests, the strengthening of the directorate of enterprises, the formation of work collectives, the establishment of territorial-production complexes, capital urban construction and housing conditions, social policy and the museumification of industrial heritage, public satire and fiction.
The authors of the book show the most diverse aspects of Soviet reality in which departmental relations were defined and reflected: the use of rhetoric about state interests, the strengthening of the directorate of enterprises, the formation of work collectives, the establishment of territorial-production complexes, capital urban construction and housing conditions, social policy and the museumification of industrial heritage, public satire and fiction.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Red History