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  • Leaders, Rules, and Personalist Politics

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Leaders, Rules, and Personalist Politics addresses the common view that many personalist leaders, often called dictators, concentrate decision-making power in their own person and usually act in an arbitrary and unconstrained fashion. It argues that, rather than being unstructured in this way, authoritarian leaderships are actually structured by a set of rules that the oligarchs who run such ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Authority and Power in Personalist Regimes

    The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book identifies nine strategies dictators use to legitimate their rule in the eyes of regime insiders, and then shows how these strategies have been used over the life of the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Drawing on analysis of the experience of all of the major Soviet and post-Soviet leaders, it charts the success with which each individual leader has utilised these strategies, and thereby ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Symbolism and Politics

    Symbolism and Politics is a timely intervention into ongoing debates around the function of political symbols in a historical period characterized by volatile electoral behaviour, fragmented societies in search of collective identifications, and increasingly polarized political models.Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society

    Edición de Graeme Gill ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This second edition of the highly respected Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society both provides a broad overview of the area and highlights cutting-edge research into the country.Through balanced theoretical and empirical investigation, each chapter examines both the Russian experience and the existing literature, identifies and exemplifies research trends, and highlights the richness ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Revolution and Terror

    de Graeme Gill ...
    This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. This thesis originally stemmed from the French revolution but has more ... Leer más

    $98.09 USD

  • The Russian Revolution and Stalinism

    Edición de Graeme Gill, Roger D. Markwick ...
    Series series Routledge Europe-Asia Studies
    This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR. It sheds new light on established questions and addresses issues that have never before been raised in the study of Stalinism.Stalinism constitutes one of the most striking and contentious phenomena of the twentieth century. It not only transformed the Soviet Union into a major military-industrial power, but through ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Bridling Dictators

    Rules and Authoritarian Politics

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterised by permanent insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of dictatorships is actually governed by a series of rules. ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume seeks to understand and explain the pattern of varying national and regional success in post-communist political and economic transition across the post-communist world. Despite widespread hopes for the development of vigorous democratic political systems and vibrant market economies, the outcomes of a quarter century of post-communist transition in the countries of the former ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Building an Authoritarian Polity

    Russia in Post-Soviet Times

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the ... Leer más

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  • Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The strategies used by the most prominent leader in each period – Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

  • Democracy and Post-Communism

    Political Change in the Post-Communist World

    de Graeme Gill ...
    The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less uniform. The post-communist states have developed political systems from democracy to dictatorship. Using examples and empirical data collected from twenty-six former Soviet states, Graeme Gill provides a detailed comparative analysis of the core ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics

    de Graeme Gill ...
    Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in party policy and leaders' speeches, artwork and political posters, and urban redevelopment, and on ritual in the political system. He shows how this symbolism and ritual were worked into a dominant ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD