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Secretaries. Regional Networks in the USSR from Stalin to Brezhnev

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How do authoritarian systems operate and change? Historians who study the personal dictatorship in the USSR of the 1930s often seek the answer by focusing on the leader's personality. However, Stalin was not the only autocrat in the USSR: he relied on a significant corps of grassroots leaders, primarily party secretaries in the republics that were part of the USSR and in regional structures. Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlitsky examine the mechanisms of the political regime in the USSR at the grassroots level and demonstrate the methods by which Soviet regional leaders created and consolidated their loyalty networks. Tracing the transformation of these networks over several decades, from Stalin to Brezhnev, the authors demonstrate how the grassroots institutions of the dictatorship gradually evolved into a kind of party governorship, based on the consolidation of the regional nomenklatura, the principles of party seniority, the indigenization of cadres, concessions to ethnic diversity, and the prevention of conflict. Oleg Khlevnyuk is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Yoram Gorlitsky is a professor at the University of Manchester.
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