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Other authors / contributors: | White, Stephen.
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ISBN: | 9780191522857 0191522856 9780191599842 0191599840
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet rule. It is also the first to make full use of the rich sources available since the collapse of Communism. The authors profile theelite as a whole and looks more closely at fifteen individual members, identifying four elite generations. The book e.
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Other form: | Print version: Mawdsley, Evan. Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev : The Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2000 9780198297383
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