Practicing Stalinism : Bolsheviks, boyars, and the persistence of tradition /

Main Author: Getty, J. Arch 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The old and the new
  • Cults and personalities, politics and bodies
  • The party personnel system: upstairs at the Central Committee
  • The party personnel system: downstairs at the Central Committee
  • Principled and personal conflicts
  • Stalin and the clans I: the "King's men"
  • Stalin and the clans II: who can vote? who can shoot?
  • Stalin and the clans III: the last stand of the clans
  • Epilogue. The new and the old