 | Leadership Selection and Patron–Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; History; Military & Strategic Studies; International Politics; International Relations; Political Philosophy; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Political Behavior and Participation; European Politics; European History; World/ International History; Contemporary History 1945-; Military & Naval History; The Cold War; Military Studies; Security Studies - Military & Strategic; Strategic Studies; Russian & Soviet Politics; Foreign Policy; Marxism & Communism; Conflict Resolution; War & Conflict Studies; Leadership Selection and Patron-Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia (1983) examines the system of nomenklatura , the semi-secret network of quasi-bureaucratic rules and personal relationships through which careers in Soviet politics were managed. Other Communist countries took the USSR as their prototype and their patronage relationship systems are included in this study. T.H. Rigby and Bohdan Harasymiw |
