Verfasst von:	Harrison, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Secret Leviathan
Titelzusatz:	secrecy and state capacity under Soviet communism
Verf.angabe:	Mark Harrison
Verlagsort:	Stanford, California
	Stanford, California
Verlag:	Hoover Institution, Stanford University
	Stanford University Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
	[2023]
Umfang:	xxv, 341 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Diagramme
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-331 ; Enthält ein Register
ISBN:	978-1-5036-2889-2
Abstract:	The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive, analytical, multi-faceted history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: one the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; the other the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states.
URL:	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313530333632383839327C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1
	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781503628892.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)Sowjetunion    / (s)Geheimhaltung    / (s)Autoritärer Staat    / (s)Handlungskompetenz    / (s)Politische Stabilität    / (z)Geschichte 1971-1991
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Europäische Geschichte
	General & world history
	Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
	HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
	Political ideologies
	Politische Ideologien
Geograph. SW:	Chechnya
	Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
	Russia
	Russland
	UdSSR, Sowjetunion
Zeit-SW:	20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
	20th century
K10plus-PPN:	1823220525