The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Evan Mawdsley

页数:352

出版时间:2000-5-25

价格:USD 110.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780198297383

图书标签:社会学政治学苏联精英社会运动社会科学极权主义、威权主义政权极权与威权政权

Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet rule. It is also the first to make full use of the rich sources available since the collapse of Communism. The authors profile the elite as a whole and looks more closely at fifteen individual members, identifying four elite generations. The book examines the evolving connection between Central Committee membership and administrative functions; the changing power and privileges of the elite and its relationship with the population; the Communist party and the top leaders; and the surprising extent to which the elite managed to maintain its position into the early years of post-communist Russia.