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  title info:
    title: Inside Lenin's government
    sub title: ideology, power and practice in the early Soviet state
  name:
    name part: Douds, Lara
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 228 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 reinterprets 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 socioeconomic 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.'
  table of contents: 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, 1921-23 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Lara Douds.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1917-1936
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1917-1921
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: 1917-1936
  classification: JN6531 .D68 2018
  classification: 947.084/1
  identifier: 9781474286701
  identifier: 1474286704
  identifier: 9781474286718
  identifier: 1474286712
  identifier: 9781474286725
  identifier: 1474286720
  identifier: 2017039533
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180307
    record change date: 20180718084933.0
    record identifier: in00003920772