Mark Harrison Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism 9781503628892

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Автор: Mark Harrison (Марк Харрисон)
Название: Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism
Перевод названия: Марк Харрисон: Тайный Левиафан. Секретность и государственность при советском коммунизме
ISBN: 9781503628892
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Всеобщая и мировая история

История Европы

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Политические идеологии

ISBN-10: 1503628892
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 372
Вес: 0.91 кг.
Дата издания: 06.06.2023
Серия: Stanfordвђ“hoover series on authoritarianism
Язык: English
Издание: New ed
Иллюстрации: 23 tables, 9 figures
Размер: 159 x 238 x 26
Ключевые слова: General & world history,Political ideologies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General,HISTORY / Russia / General,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Подзаголовок: Secrecy and state capacity under soviet communism
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival.

This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states.

Дополнительное описание: 2. The Secrecy/Capacity Tradeoff
3. The Secrecy Tax
4. Secrecy and Fear
5. Secret Policing and Discrimination
6. Secret Policing and Mistrust
7. Secrecy and the Uninformed Elite
8. Secrecy and Twenty-First-Century Autho

Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism, Mark Harrison