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Author Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-

Title Grand theater : regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / Larry E. Holmes
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 257 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents A script of perfection, failure, blame -- Ascent into darkness : escalating negativity, 1931-1941 -- A symbiosis of errors : the personal, professional, and political, 1931-1938 -- The art of complaint, 1931-1938 -- Power to the people and to the state : great performances by V.P. Bulygina and E.T. Chernykh -- "My friend, I've hit rock bottom" : politics and friendship -- A tragedy : the terror -- Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941 -- "Stop this petty tyranny" : letters and the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941 -- Proprietary professionalism : mine by right, 1938-1941
Summary Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure but rather as a process of day-to-day operation. Thus it is concerned with how agencies of both the communist party and the state apparatus not only implemented directives from above but also responded to perceived successes and failures, chose to produce, share, and conceal information, and reacted when common citizens injected themselves into governance by making demands and complaints. It concentrates on the 1930s as a seminal period when Stalin's regime established a hypercentralized system that dominated the Soviet
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union -- History
Regionalism -- Soviet Union -- History
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Bureaucracy
Politics and government
Regionalism
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021698702
ISBN 9780739135938
0739135937
9786612494529
6612494522
0739135937