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An essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, they chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks.
Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin
was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international
statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the
most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from the end
of World War II until his death, Stalin remained a man possessed by
his fears. In order to reinforce his despotic rule in the face of
old age and uncertain health, he habitually humiliated and
terrorized members of his inner circle. He had their telephones
bugged and even forced his deputy, Viacheslav Molotov, to betray
his own spouse as a token of his allegiance.
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