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Structure, Class, and Career: The Problem of Bureaucracy and Society in Russia, 1801-1917

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Don Karl Rowney
Don Karl Rowney*
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Bowling Green State University
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The problem of explaining the process of development of the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century has been eased substantially by the appearance within the last ten years of an extraordinary collection of studies. Some of these have concen- trated on individuals, but by far the most important group of works (Amburger, 1966; Armstrong, 1959, 1973; Orlovsky, 1981; Pintner, 1970, 1975, 1980a, 1980b; Troitskii, 1974; Torke, 1967; Zaionchkovskii, 1964, 1974, 1975, 1978) has dealt with institu- tions and with groups of bureaucrats. Other interesting and helpful essays that summarize or synthesize the many individual findings have also appeared e.g., Raeff (1979), Field (1979), Orlovsky (1976).

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Social Science History , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Winter 1982 , pp. 87 - 110
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1982 

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Footnotes

This article is a revised version of a presentation made to the Third World Congress on Soviet and East European Studies in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany, 1980. Portions of the research upon which the study is based were supported by grants from the National Endowment on the Humanities and from Bowling Green State Universit.

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