Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition

Publication Data

• Title Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition
• Author J. Arch Getty
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location New Haven
• Language English

Contents

The old and the new
Cults and personalities, politics and bodies
The party personnel system: upstairs at the Central Committee
The party personnel system: downstairs at the Central Committee
Principled and personal conflicts
Stalin and the clans I: the "King's men"
Stalin and the clans II: who can vote? who can shoot?
Stalin and the clans III: the last stand of the clans
Epilogue. The new and the old.

Topics

• Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za :: Party work
• Politics, Practical :: Soviet Union
• Politics, Practical :: Social aspects :: Soviet Union
• Soviet Union :: Politics and government :: 1917-1936
• Soviet Union :: Politics and government :: 1936-1953
• Soviet Union

Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition by J. Arch Getty. ISBN 9780300169294. Published by Yale University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.