Grand Theater : Regional Governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941.
Title:
Grand Theater : Regional Governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941.
Author:
Holmes, Larry E.
ISBN:
9780739135938
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Grand Theater -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Districts in the Kirov Region, 1935 -- Preface: The Wealth of Regional History -- Introduction -- Chapter 01: A Script of Perfection, Failure, Blame -- Chapter 02: Ascent into Darkness: Escalating Negativity, 1931-1941 -- Chapter 03: A Symbiosis of Errors: The Personal ,Professional, and Political, 1931-1938 -- Chapter 04: The Art of Complaint, 1931-1938 -- Chapter 05: Power to the People and to the State: Great Performances by V. P. Bulygina and E. T. Chernykh -- Chapter 06: "My Friend, I've Hit Rock Bottom": Politics and Friendship -- Chapter 07: A Tragedy: The Terror -- Chapter 08: Degeneration of the Symbiosis of Errors, 1938-1941 -- Chapter 09: "Stop This Petty Tyranny": Letters and The Administration of Schools in Falenki, 1940-1941 -- Chapter 10: Proprietary Professionalism: Mine by Right, 1938-1941 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure, which it certainly was, 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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