Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works
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- Synopsis
- There have been lots of books about Russia and there always will be—because it’s an enigmatic and fascinating subject. But none has given a more intimate picture of how it really works; how it’s governed from top to bottom; who does what; how it is run today and how it got that way; where it’s going. One of 1981’s big best sellers in France, this is the work of a distinguished social and political writer who knows the USSR inside and out and who has a gift for painting vivid pictures of how a human society is organized and operated, both in theory and in fact. She has the knowledge of a scholar, the pen of a journalist, and the eye of a Tocqueville. The book shows how the USSR of Brezhnev grew out of the experiences and cataclysms of Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev. It focuses on Russia as it is today, laying out clear, human pictures of the Party, the government, the elite that rules, the bureaucracy that governs, the structures that produce, the people who obey and whose power has been confiscated.
- Copyright:
- 1982
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 401 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780060390099
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Date of Addition:
- 08/24/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Larry Lumpkin
- Proofread By:
- Frenchie
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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