1: Revolutionaries in power, 1917-1923
2: Old Bolsheviks, Socialist Construction and the Purges,
1923-1939
3: Stalin's new elite, 1939-1956
4: Stalinist generation, Leninist norms, 1956-1966
5: The elite consolidates, 1966-1985
6: Challenge and crisis, 1985-1991
7: Elite and society
8: An evolving elite
Evan Mawdsley is Professor of International History, University of
Glasgow.
Stephen White is Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow.
`The product of ten years of research in the newly opened Russian
archives ... The author's research and conclusions will cause many
of us to reassess our generalizations about the Soviet system and
its participants over its seventy years of existence. The book is
necessary reading for specialists in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian
history.'
David R.Stefancic, History, Winter 2001
`This collective biography of the Soviet ruling elite is based on a
decade of exhaustive research of archives, secondary sources, and
interviews with surviving members ... it will be a standard
reference work for historians or political scientists studying the
various phases of Soviet history.'
P.Rutland, Choice, May 2001
`The authors draw some noteworthy ... conclusions from ...
data'
Sergei Roy, The Moscow Times
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