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Practicing Stalinism - Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition (Hardcover)
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Practicing Stalinism - Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition (Hardcover)
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In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a
variety of other informal practices spanned the
centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and
personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less
important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused
documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how
these political practices and traditions from old Russia have
persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to
the present day. Getty examines a number of case studies of
political practices in the Stalin era and after. These
include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks
into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection
system, and the rise of political clans ("family circles") after
the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his
eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges
of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing
clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client
relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin
shows.Â
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