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No Safety in Numbers - Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Walter McKenzie Pintner and Don Karl Rowney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xvii, 396 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Daniel Field
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Slavic Review , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Summer 1981 , pp. 273 - 277
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1981

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References

1. Longinov, M. N., ed., “Russkii generalitet v 1730 g.,” in Petr Bartenev, ed., Osemnadtsatyi vek, 4 vols. (Moscow, 1868-69), 3:161 -77Google Scholar. The list was compiled (or revised) some time in the 1760s and came from the manuscript collection of the antiquarian P. F. Karabanov.

2. See Lincoln, W. Bruce, “A Profile of the Rus sian Bureaucracy on the Eve of the Great Reforms,” Jahrbücherfür Geschichte Osteuropas, n.s., 27, no. 2 (1979): 182Google Scholar.

3. Orlovsky refers to Pintner's pathbreaking article, “Social Characteristics of the Early Nineteenth- Century Russian Bureaucracy,” Slavic Review, 29, no. 3 (September 1970): 429-43.

4. Zaionchkovskii, P. A., Pravitel'stvennyi apparal samoderzhavnoi Rossii v XIX v. (Moscow, 1978), p. 136 Google Scholar.

5. “Holdovers” in table XII-12 correspond to the sum of those officials with a siazhpo naimu of thirteen or more years in 1929, as tabulated by la. BinemanandS. Kheinman, , Kadry gosudarstvennogo i kooperativnogo apparata SSSR (Moscow, 1930)Google Scholar, table 14.

6. Gosudarstvennyi apparal SSSR (Moscow, 1929), which is the sole source for three tables, was unavailable, as was the source for table XII-13.

7. In tables XI1-3 and XII-6, the citations of Bineman and Kheinman, Kadry, are garbled. Row 10 ( “All Administration” ), table XII-5 appears to render row 7 ( “Itogi po vsem gosudarstv. uchrezh. I predpr.” ), table 18 of Slatisticheskiispravochnik SSSRza 1928 (Moscow, 1929), but the figuresdonot match.

8. Russian Officialdom, p. 168 n. Bennett calls attention to Zaionchkovskii's discussion of official salaries but not to his treatment, in the same chapter, of chiny. This chapter is now available in English, edited by Brenda Meehan-Waters (Soviet Studies in History. 18, no. 2 [1979]: 11-113).