Russian Bureaucracy and the State (eBook)

Officialdom From Alexander III to Vladimir Putin

D. Rowney, E. Huskey (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
XII, 346 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-0-230-24499-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Russian Bureaucracy and the State 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 - tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist.

Autor

DON K. ROWNEY is Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at Bowling Green State University, USA. A specialist on the history of Russian state administration and European historiography, he is the author of Transition to Technocracy: The Structural Origins of the Soviet Administrative State and co-editor of Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. EUGENE HUSKEY is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science and Russian Studies at Stetson University, USA. A specialist on politics and legal affairs in Russia and Kyrgyzstan, he is the author of Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State and Presidential Power in Russia.

Inhalt

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 State Officials 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 and Promoting 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 346 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verwaltungsverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Bureaucracy • communism • Corruption • foreign policy • Government • Institution • Policy • Revolution • Russia • Ukraine • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-230-24499-8 / 0230244998
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-24499-3 / 9780230244993