Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro

Brown, Archie

Rigby, T. H.

History

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Politics & Social Sciences

Reddaway, Peter

Schapiro, Leonard

Politics & Government

Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays dedicated to Leonard Schapiro

Russia

When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective machinery and methods of operation, and to use it to govern the country. It examines what kind of people were appointed to Sovnarkom and who chose them. It shows how elements of the pre-revolutionary system of government were taken over along with former ministerial officials. Sovnarkom was headed by Lenin and this helped to ensure its early pre-dominance. Nonetheless it was gradually overshadowed by the Party Central Committee and Politburo, and the book seeks to explain why this happened and why Lenin's efforts to reverse the process failed. The book throws important light on the origins of the Soviet system of government.

Lenin's Govrnmnt: Sovnarkom 1917-22: Sovnarkom 1917-1922 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 26)

World

Cambridge University Press

<p>When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective machinery and methods of operation, and to use it to govern the country. It examines what kind of people were appointed to Sovnarkom and who chose them. It shows how elements of the pre-revolutionary system of government were taken over along with former ministerial officials. Sovnarkom was headed by Lenin and this helped to ensure its early pre-dominance. Nonetheless it was gradually overshadowed by the Party Central Committee and Politburo, and the book seeks to explain why this happened and why Lenin's efforts to reverse the process failed. The book throws important light on the origins of the Soviet system of government.</p>

Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 26)

The Changing Soviet System presents important insights into the origin, development and current crisis in mono-organizational socialism - the system under which all social activities are ultimately controlled by the Communist Party leadership.

The Changing Soviet System: Mono-Organisational Socialism from its Origins to Gorbachev's Restructuring

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