Russian Burocracy: Power and Pathology

The purpose of this book is to present, examine, evaluate, and explain the role and place of the state bureaucracy in society and public administration of Russia under three regimes-the tsarist, the Soviet, and the present or post-Soviet. A particular focus here are negative and officially undesired actual bureaucratic behavior as example and as pattern, its effects, and the problems it poses for the transformation of Russia into a modem, Westem-type system.