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Auteur(s) : Douds, Lara
Titre(s) : Inside Lenin's government [Texte imprimé] : ideology, power and practice in the early Soviet state / Lara Douds
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (228 pages) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 213-223 and index
"Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the
early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), under
Lenin. This study elucidates the process by which Sovnarkom's governmental decision-making
authority was transferred to Communist Party bodies in the early years of Soviet power
and traces the day-to-day operation of the supreme state organ. The book argues that
Sovnarkom was the principal executive body of the early Soviet government until the
Politburo gradually usurped this role during the Civil War. Using a range of archival
source material, Lara Douds re-interprets early Soviet political history as a period
where fledging 'Soviet' rather than simply 'Communist Party' power was attempted,
but ultimately failed when pressures of Civil War and socio-economic dislocation encouraged
the centralising and authoritarian rather than democratic strand of Bolshevism to
predominate. Inside Lenin's Government explores the basic mechanics of governance
by looking at the frequency of meetings, types of business discussed, processes of
decision-making and the administrative backdrop, as well as the key personalities
of Sovnarkom. It then considers the reasons behind the shift in executive power from
state to party in this period, which resulted in an abnormal situation where, as Leon
Trotsky commented in 1923, 'leadership by the party gives way to administration by
its organs'."
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Ideology, power and practice in the early Soviet state
Sujet(s) : Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič (1870-1924)
Politique et gouvernement -- URSS -- 1917-1928
Indice(s) Dewey :
947.084 1 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Russie - 1917-1924
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781474286701. - ISBN 1474286704. - ISBN 9781350126497. - ISBN 1350126497. -
ISBN 9781474286718 (erroné). - ISBN 1474286712 (erroné). - ISBN 9781474286725 (erroné).
- ISBN 1474286720 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb472845223
Notice n° :
FRBNF47284522
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; State and revolution and the idea of Soviet democracy ; Early Soviet
democracy in practice: Sovnarkom as Cabinet, 1917-19 ; The Sovnarkom Administration
Department as an "anti-bureaucratic" apparatus ; Sverdlov, the Soviets and the Secretariat
; "Collegiality" in the early Soviet government ; Sovnarkom's decline and the rise
of the Politburo 1919-23 ; The politics of illness: Lenin and his deputies, 1921-24
; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index.