The Soviet elite from Lenin to Gorbachev : the Central Committee and its members, 1917-1991 / Evan Mawdsley and Stephen White.
"Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet rule. It is also the first to make full use of the rich sources available since the collapse of Communism. The authors profile the elite as a whole and look more closely at fifteen individual members, identifying four elite generations. The book examines the evolving connection between Central Committee membership and administrative functions; the changing power and privileges of the elite and its relationship with the population; the Communist party and the top leaders; and the surprising extent to which the elite managed to maintain its position into the early years of post-communist Russia."--Jacket. Serving as a collective biography of nearly 2000 people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this book is based on archival research and extensive interviews with former Central Committee members. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191522856 0191599840 0585366055 1280446226 9780191522857 9780191599842 9780585366050 9781280446221 |