Russian bureaucracy and the state: officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin/ edited by Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xii, 346 p. ; 22 cm.

1. Introduction: Russian Officialdom since 1881 / Don K. Rowney and Eugene Huskey --
pt. I. Late Tsarist Officialdom --
2. Institutional Structure of Late Tsarist Officialdom: An Introduction / Don K. Rowney --
3. Imperial Russian Officialdom during Modernization / Don K. Rowney --
4. Identities, Loyalties and Government Service in Tsarist Ukraine / Stephen Velychenko --
5. Multi-ethnicity and Estonian Tsarist Slate Officials in Estland Province, 1881-1914 / Bradley D. Woodworth --
6. Military Bureaucracy in the Samarkand Oblast' of Russian Turkestan / Alexander Morrison --
pt. II. Soviet Officialdom --
7. Introduction to Soviet Officialdom / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney --
8. Communist Party and the Weakness of Bureaucratic Norms / Graeme Gill --
9. White-Collar Workers in the Second Revolution and Postwar Reconstruction / Daniel Orlovsky --
10. Survival Strategies in the Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of the Statistics Administration / Martine Mespoulet --
11. Corruption among Officials and Anticorruption Drives in the USSR, 1945-1964 / James Heinzen --
12. Soviet Foreign Policy from the 1970s through the Gorbachev Era: The Role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Communist Party International Department / Marie-Pierre Rey --
pt. III. Post-communist Officialdom --
13. Introduction to Post-communist Officialdom / Engene Huskey --
14. Hiring and Promoting Young Civil Servants: Weberian Ideals versus Russian Reality / Vladimir Gimpelson, Vladimir Magun and Robert J. Brym --
15. Politics-Administration Nexus in Post-communist Russia / Eugene Huskey --
16. Delivering State Services to the Population: The Development of State Welfare Agencies in Post-Soviet Russia / Cecile Lefevre --
17. Fate of Russian Officialdom: Fundamental Reform or Technical Improvements? / Alexei Barabashev, Mikhail Krasnov, Alexander Obolonsky and Tatiana Zaitseva --
18. Why Is It So Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom? / Alexander Obolonsky --
19. Conclusion / Eugene Huskey and Don K. Rowney.

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