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Reconstructing the State : Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia - Gerald M. Easter

Reconstructing the State

Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia

By: Gerald M. Easter

Paperback | 1 May 2007

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Why do some state-building efforts succeed when others fail? Using formerly unavailable archival sources, this book presents an explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet state. The study explains how personal networks and elite identity served as informal sources of power that influenced state strength. Reconstructing the State also offers alternative interpretations of how the weak Bolshevik state extended its reach to a vast rural and multi-ethnic periphery as well as the dynamics of the center-regional conflict in the 1930s that culminated in the Great Terror.
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'Easter's superb study illuminates the heretofore underappreciated role of regional elite networks in the evolution of the Soviet state. This lucidly written book is a fine political history embedded in a sophisticated and useful theoretical framework. It is an important contribution to political science and Soviet history.' Zoitan Barany, University of Texas, Austin

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Published: 5th June 2000

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