Russian bureaucracy; power and pathology. (reprint, 2003).(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0847695034

Russian bureaucracy; power and pathology. (reprint, 2003)

Ryavec, Karl W.

Rowman & Littlefield

2005

291 pages

$32.95

Paperback

JN6531

Although it has taken different forms in the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, bureaucracy has always been important to the politics and economics of Russia. Ryavec (political science, U. of Massac...

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