During World War II, German forces invading the Soviet city of Smolensk captured Party headquarters before local officials could destroy their archives. The collection of official documents thus obtained were eventually given to the American government at the end of the war, and were subsequently made available to scholars for analysis. Merle Fainsod (1907-1972) was one such scholar who used the evidence in order to understand how the early system of Soviet totalitarianism worked. This volume contains his political and historical analysis of the Smolensk region in the 1920s and 1930s.

Smolensk Under Soviet Rule (Classics in Russian and Soviet History)

History

Fainsod, Merle

Americas

Unwin Hyman, Inc.

This book presents an examination and analysis of one of the profoundly important developments of the last century-the assumption by government of major responsibilities for the guidance and direction of the American economy.

Government and the American Economy

Business & Money

Gordon, Lincoln

Palamountain Jr., Joseph C.

Economics

W.W.Norton&Company

How Russia Is Ruled: Revised Edition (Russian Research Center Studies, 11)

Russia

Harvard University Press

1 HARDCOVER BOOK NO DUST COVER(retired library)

How Russia Is Ruled: Revised Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

This is a new and thorough revision of a recognized classic whose first edition was hailed as the most authoritative account in English of the governing of the Soviet Union. Now, with historical material rearranged in chronological order, and with seven new chapters covering most of the last fifteen years, this edition brings the Soviet Union fully into the light of modern history and political science.
The purposes of Fainsod's earlier editions were threefold: to explain the techniques used by the Bolsheviks and Stalin to gain control of the Russian political system; to describe the methods they employed to maintain command; and to speculate upon the likelihood oftheir continued control in the future. This new edition increases very substantially the attention paid to another aspect of the political process―how policy is formed, how the Soviet Union is governed. Whenever possible, Mr. Hough attempts to analyze the alignments and interrelationships between Soviet policy institutions. Moreover, he constantly moves beyond a description of these institutions to probe the way they work. Two chapters are devoted to the questions of individual political participation. Other chapters examine the internal organization of institutions and explore the ways in which the backgrounds of their officials influence their policy positions and alliances. The picture that emerges is an unprecedented account of the distribution of power in the Soviet Union.

How the Soviet Union Is Governed

Hough, Jerry F.

Smolensk Under Soviet Rule

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