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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      November 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511598890
      9780521372565
      9780521054881
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598890
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.308kg, 200 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (67)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (67)
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    Control of office has long been regarded as the key element in understanding power and policy in the Soviet system. What, however, accounts for the control of office and how are individuals recruited into positions of power and responsibility? In An Algebra of Soviet Power, Michael Urban adopts a fresh approach and introduces into the field of political elite studies the sociological technique of vacancy chain analysis. This treats the movements of actors as sequences of complex inter-relations that are structured by the properties and powers of the personnel system rather than by the consequences of individual intentions or characteristics. This algebraic method is applied to a large body of career data of officials from the Soviet Republic of Belorussia for the period 1966–86. The author documents how, despite the formal systems of nomenklatura - central control over personnel placement - the flow of individuals through the hierarchy of offices in Belorussia has not been influenced by any coordinating policy issuing from Moscow or Minsk. Instead regionalism has played an important, and patronage the decisive, role in the system.

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