Stalinism and Executive Power: Formal and Informal Contours of Stalinism

Graeme Gill

Europe-Asia Studies, 2019, vol. 71, issue 6, 994-1012

Abstract: One of the key characteristics of Stalinism was the relationship between its formal and informal aspects. This is reflected clearly in the way in which, over time, the formal institutions of rule were supplanted by more informal mechanisms of decision-making. However, although the formal institutions seemed to atrophy, they were not abolished, but continued to become the basis upon which the post-Stalin leadership rested. The essay explains why one of those institutions, the Politburo, was maintained despite its atrophy as a decision-making organ, explaining this principally as a result of both strategic and tactical considerations.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1628180

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