Synopses & Reviews
The Russian State and Administration provides a rich and innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the work assesses the organization, personnel, and practices of officialdom across three different Russian regimes tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist.
Synopsis
Written by an international group of specialists, Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides an empirically rich and conceptually innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. The contributors assess the perennial tensions in Russian state administration - tensions between centre and periphery, formal rules and informal practices, professional and legal versus political loyalties, and a reliance on public versus private purveyors of services. The book is designed to appeal to specialists in Russian and postcommunist studies as well as to students of the state and comparative bureaucracies who are seeking authoritative analyses of how the organization, personnel, and practices of Russian officialdom relate to bureaucratic norms and behaviour elsewhere.
Synopsis
Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881; D.K.Rowney & E.Huskey PART I: LATE TSARIST OFFICIALDOM The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction; D.K.Rowney Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization; D.K.Rowney Identities, Loyalties, and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine; S.Velychenko Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province: 1881-1914; B.Woodworth The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan; A.Morrison PART II: SOVIET OFFICIALDOM An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom; E.Huskey & D.K.Rowney The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms; G.Gill White Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction; D.Orlovsky Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration; M.Mespoulet Corruption among Officials and Anti-Corruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964; J.Heinzen Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department; M-P.Rey PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST OFFICIALDOM An Introduction to Postcommunist Officialdom; E.Huskey Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality; V.Gimpelson, V.Magun & R.J.Brym The Politics-Administration Nexus in Postcommunist Russia; E.Huskey Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia; C.Lefevre The Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements?; A.Barabashev, M.Krasnov, A.Obolonsky & T.Zaitseva Why is it so Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?; A.Obolonsky Conclusion; E.Huskey & D.K.Rowney
About the Author
DON K. ROWNEY is Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at Bowling Green State University, USA. A specialist on the history of Russian state administration and European historiography, he is the author of
Transition to Technocracy: The Structural Origins of the Soviet Administrative State and co-editor of
Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.
EUGENE HUSKEY is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science and Russian Studies at Stetson University, USA. A specialist on politics and legal affairs in Russian and Kyrgyzstan, he is the author of Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State and Presidential Power in Russia.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881--
D.K.Rowney&
E.HuskeyPART I: LATE TSARIST OFFICIALDOM
The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction--D.K.Rowney
Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization--D.K.Rowney
Identities, Loyalties, and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine--S.Velychenko
Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province: 1881-1914, B.Woodworth
The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast of Russian Turkestan--A.Morrison
PART II: SOVIET OFFICIALDOM
An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom--E.Huskey& D.K.Rowney
The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms--G.Gill
White Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction--D.Orlovsky
Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration--M.Mespoulet
Corruption among Officials and Anti-Corruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964--J.Heinzen
Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department--M-P.Rey
PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST OFFICIALDOM
An Introduction to Postcommunist Officialdom--E.Huskey
Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality--V.Gimpelson, V.Magun& R.J.Brym
The Politics-Administration Nexus in Postcommunist Russia--E.Huskey
Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia--C.Lefevre
The Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements?--A.Barabashev, M.Krasnov, A.Obolonsky &--T.Zaitseva
Why is it so Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?--A.Obolonsky
Conclusion--E.Huskey& D.K.Rowney
Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881--D.K.Rowney& E.Huskey
PART I: LATE TSARIST OFFICIALDOM
The Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction--D.K.Rowney
Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization--D.K.Rowney
Identities, Loyalties, and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine--S.Velychenko
Multiethnicity and Estonian Tsarist State Officials in Estland Province: 1881-1914, B.Woodworth
The Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast of Russian Turkestan--A.Morrison
PART II: SOVIET OFFICIALDOM
An Introduction to Soviet Officialdom--E.Huskey& D.K.Rowney
The Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms--G.Gill
White Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction--D.Orlovsky
Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration--M.Mespoulet
Corruption among Officials and Anti-Corruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964--J.Heinzen
Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department--M-P.Rey
PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST OFFICIALDOM
An Introduction to Postcommunist Officialdom--E.Huskey
Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality--V.Gimpelson, V.Magun& R.J.Brym
The Politics-Administration Nexus in Postcommunist Russia--E.Huskey
Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia--C.Lefevre
The Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements?--A.Barabashev, M.Krasnov, A.Obolonsky &--T.Zaitseva
Why is it so Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?--A.Obolonsky
Conclusion--E.Huskey& D.K.Rowney