Russian Bureaucracy and the State

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881

   1. Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881

      • Don K. Rowney, Eugene Huskey

      Pages 1-16

3. Late Tsarist Officialdom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction

      • Don K. Rowney

      Pages 19-25

   3. Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization

      • Don K. Rowney

      Pages 26-45

   4. Identities, Loyalties and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine

      • Stephen Velychenko

      Pages 46-71

   5. Multi-ethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province, 1881–1914

      • Bradley D. Woodworth

      Pages 72-88

   6. The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast’; of Russian Turkestan

      • Alexander Morrison

      Pages 89-108

4. Soviet Officialdom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom

      • Eugene Huskey, Don K. Rowney

      Pages 111-117

   3. The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms

      • Graeme Gill

      Pages 118-134

   4. White-Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction

      • Daniel Orlovsky

      Pages 135-151

   5. Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration

      • Martine Mespoulet

      Pages 152-168

   6. Corruption among Officials and Anticorruption Drives in the USSR, 1945–1964

      • James Heinzen

      Pages 169-188

   7. Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department

      • Marie-Pierre Rey

      Pages 189-211

5. Post-communist Officialdom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. An Introduction to Post-communist Officialdom

      • Eugene Huskey

      Pages 215-230

   3. Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality

      • Vladimir Gimpelson, Vladimir Magun, Robert J. Brym

      Pages 231-252

   4. The Politics-Administration Nexus in Post-communist Russia

      • Eugene Huskey

      Pages 253-272

   5. Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia

      • Cecile Lefevre

      Pages 273-289

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.

• bureaucracy
• communism
• corruption
• foreign policy
• government
• Institution
• Policy
• revolution
• Russia
• Ukraine
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• work

• Bowling Green State University, USA

  Don K. Rowney

• Stetson University, USA

  Eugene Huskey

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.

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