THE SOVIET MODEL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS AND POLITICAL PRACTICE
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Andrey V. Speransky Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Head of Center for Political and Socio-Cultural History
Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Abstract:
The paper analyses the main socio-political and socio-economic processes that contributed to the manifestation of totalitarian features in the state development of Russia. In the 1920s-40s, these features became basis for formation of the Soviet model of governance, which operated with varying degrees of success in the subsequent stages of Soviet history, until the collapse of the USSR. The paper describes scientific views that try to reflect the essence of totalitarian nature of the Soviet state. It is noted that the totalitarian concept of origin and functioning of the Soviet state was formed in the womb of Western science, and Russian adherents of this theory, despite all existing evaluation differences, generally agree with foreign Sovietologists, considering Stalinism as a kind of totalitarianism with international roots.The paper focuses on the analysis of Russian features that influenced formation of a specific pyramid of power within the framework of political regime created by I.V. Stalin. The paper shows mechanism of interaction of its main elements: charisma, elite, nomenclature and people. The paper also reveals reasons for its high level of strength and survival. The paper concludes about objectivity of the processes that led to formation of the Soviet model of public administration and inevitability of the essential direction of its functioning.
How to Cite:
Andrey V.S., (2019), THE SOVIET MODEL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS AND POLITICAL PRACTICE. History and Modern Perspectives, 4 => 46-53.
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Keywords:
concept, discussion, totalitarianism, Stalinism, Leninism, command and administrative system, the Soviets, nomenclature, charisma, elite.


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