Grand theater : regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / Larry E. Holmes.

Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure 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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • A script of perfection, failure, blame
  • Ascent into darkness : escalating negativity, 1931-1941
  • A symbiosis of errors : the personal, professional, and political, 1931-1938
  • The art of complaint, 1931-1938
  • Power to the people and to the state : great performances by V.P. Bulygina and E.T. Chernykh
  • "My friend, I've hit rock bottom" : politics and friendship
  • A tragedy : the terror
  • Degeneration of the symbiosis of errors, 1938-1941
  • "Stop this petty tyranny" : letters and the administration of schools in Falenki, 1940-1941
  • Proprietary professionalism : mine by right, 1938-1941.