Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union 0300230818, 9780300230819

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Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
 0300230818, 9780300230819

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
A Note on Usage
Introduction
Part I. Stalin
1. Substate Dictators
2. Authoritarian Checks and Balances
3. Inside the Nomenklatura
Part II. Interregnum
4. Moscow, Center
Part III. Khrushchev
5. The New Art of Survival
6. Substate Nationalism
7. Scandal in Riazan
8. Administrative Revolution
Part IV. Brezhnev
9. The New Course
10. Party Governors
Conclusion
Appendix A: A Note on Dictatorship
Appendix B: Units of Analysis
Appendix C: Sample
Appendix D: Political Networks
Appendix E: Archival Sources
Appendix F: The Nomenklatura
Appendix G: Regional Party Elections
Appendix H: Coding Rules
Glossary
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Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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