Russian Bureaucracy and the State: Officialdom From Alexander III to Vladimir Putin

by D. Rowney, E. Huskey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230228849
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/23/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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