T H Rigby
Biographic Data
| ID | 693487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T H Rigby |
| GIVEN NAMES | T H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigby |
| SIGNATURE | RIGBY T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1904 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Russia's Provincial Bosses: A Collective Career Profile
The origins, earlier careers and paths to power of the provincial governors and republican presidents in the Russian Federation at the turn of 1999-2000 reveal interesting patterns, bearing both similarities with and differences from equivalent positions in the Soviet era. All but one were men, the majority in early middle-age. Non-Russians were relatively well-represented. All had tertiary education - mostly in industry- or agriculture-related i…
New Top Elites for Old in Russian Politics
Previous research on elite change in Russia, the main findings of which are summarized here, has shown that well over half of post-Soviet Russia's political elite were drawn from the late-Soviet era elite. After a caveat against loose use of the nomenklatura concept, this article focuses on a far narrower sub-group, defined as the ‘top’ political elite, comprising 135 individuals in late 1988 and ninety-eight in 1996. Many of the old top elite fo…
China's Rise, Russia's Fall: Politics, Economics and Planning in the Transition from Stalinism. Peter Nolan
The Reincarnation of Russia: Struggling with the Legacy of Communism, 1990-1994
Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics
Getting to the Top in the USSR: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process
Political Elites in the USSR: Central Leaders and Local Cadres from Lenin to Gorbachev
This important book presents Professor Rigby's key writings on the creation of elites in the Soviet Union. It shows how the nomenclature system evolved as a key instrument for directing and controlling all spheres of national life, drawing its elite echelons together in a single bureaucratic ruling class
Soviet Regional Elite Mobility after Khrushchev
Preface Introduction: The Concept of Political Elite Mobility in the Soviet System Obkom First Secretaries, Political Mobility, and Seilschaften Toward the Construction of a Political Mobility Ranking of Oblast Communist Party Committees Soviet Regional Elite Mobility: The Search for Non-Idiosyncratic Independent Variables Elite Mobility at the Obkom Tier: The Effects of Background Characteristics and Functional Career Types Regional Cadres Polic…
The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow, by Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus
Journal Article The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow, by Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus Get access The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow edited by Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1990. 359 pp. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $18.95. T.H. Rigby T.H. Rigby Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 1…
Staffing USSR incorporated: The origins of the nomenklatura system
basic constituent elements of the Soviet socio-political order. The essence of thlis order has been the attempt consciously to manage every area of socially relevant activity, outside a closely circumscribed private sphere, through an array of hierarchically structured formal organisations, all coordinated and directed at the centre and at successively lower levels by the apparatus of the Communist Party. Although some subsidiary use is made of m…
Was Stalin a disloyal patron
Henry in the eyes of fellow students
Leonard Schapiro and the Russian Revolutions
MORALITY’, LENIN TOLD THE 529 APPRENTICE APPARATCHIKI gathered at the Third Congress of the Communist Youth League in October 1920, ‘is what serves to destroy the old exploiting society and to unite all the working people around the proletariat, which is building a new, a communist society... We do not believe in an eternal moralit and we expose the falseness of all fables about morality.’ Lenin's rapt young listeners learned the lesson well: for…
Dominant and Subsidiary Modes of Political Legitimation in the USSR: A Comment on Christel Lane's Article
Perhaps we political scientists and sociologists should have left ‘legitimacy’ to the constitutional and international lawyers. Such a view is certainly suggested by the present cacophany of our definitions, taxonomies and applications of the term. When the contributors to a book on political legitimation in communist states, representing by no means the full range of scholarly views on the social and political systems of these countries, can var…
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro
Political patronage in the USSR from Lenin to Brezhnev
Political Legitimation in Communist States
Early provincial cliques and the rise of Stalin
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Some recent books on East German politics
October 1917 Revisited
Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom, 1917-1922
When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective machinery and methods of operation, and to use it to govern the country. It examines what kind of people were appointed to Sovnarkom and who chose them. It s…
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922
Research note on a new source on Soviet communist party membership
The Soviet leadership: Towards a self‐stabilizing oligarchy
Early provincial cliques and the rise of Stalin
The Soviet Regional Leadership: The Brezhnev Generation
The secretaries of republic and regional party committees are the most important category of officials in the USSR after the supreme leadership. They formed 36 percent of the full members of the Central Committee chosen in 1976, while the next largest group, comprising members of the Council of Ministers, made up 24 percent. They are also the most important reserve from which members of the supreme leadership are co-opted. A study of the careers …
Traditional, Market, and Organizational Societies and the USSR
This article represents an attempt to describe Soviet society, and JL particularly the Soviet political system, in terms of a typology of society based on modes of coordinating social activity. It is felt that this approach may be of value in pointing up both some of the similarities and some of the differences between Communist and non-Communist industrialized societies
New Top Elites for Old in Russian Politics
Previous research on elite change in Russia, the main findings of which are summarized here, has shown that well over half of post-Soviet Russia's political elite were drawn from the late-Soviet era elite. After a caveat against loose use of the nomenklatura concept, this article focuses on a far narrower sub-group, defined as the ‘top’ political elite, comprising 135 individuals in late 1988 and ninety-eight in 1996. Many of the old top elite fo…
Staffing USSR incorporated: The origins of the nomenklatura system
basic constituent elements of the Soviet socio-political order. The essence of thlis order has been the attempt consciously to manage every area of socially relevant activity, outside a closely circumscribed private sphere, through an array of hierarchically structured formal organisations, all coordinated and directed at the centre and at successively lower levels by the apparatus of the Communist Party. Although some subsidiary use is made of m…
The Forming of the Communist International
Soviet communist party membership under Brezhnev
Political Elites in the USSR: Central Leaders and Local Cadres from Lenin to Gorbachev
This important book presents Professor Rigby's key writings on the creation of elites in the Soviet Union. It shows how the nomenclature system evolved as a key instrument for directing and controlling all spheres of national life, drawing its elite echelons together in a single bureaucratic ruling class
Was Stalin a disloyal patron
The Soviet Political Elite 1917–1922
The ‘October Revolution’ gave Russia a new political elite, manifesting very limited continuity with the elite that preceded it. This article has focused on the characteristics of this elite not at the top leadership level but at the level of the few hundred who were most significantly politically at the national stage and the few thousand who were most significant politically in the provinces. The data show that the Revolution dramatically widen…
Dominant and Subsidiary Modes of Political Legitimation in the USSR: A Comment on Christel Lane's Article
Perhaps we political scientists and sociologists should have left ‘legitimacy’ to the constitutional and international lawyers. Such a view is certainly suggested by the present cacophany of our definitions, taxonomies and applications of the term. When the contributors to a book on political legitimation in communist states, representing by no means the full range of scholarly views on the social and political systems of these countries, can var…
Hough on political participation in the Soviet Union
The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71
(1972). The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71. Soviet Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3-23
Party Elections in the Cpsu
Henry in the eyes of fellow students
Totalitarianism' and Change in Communist Systems
Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics
Getting to the Top in the USSR: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process
Political patronage in the USSR from Lenin to Brezhnev
Political Legitimation in Communist States
"Forward From "Who Gets What, When, How
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The Soviet government since Khrushchev
In 1965 Khrushchev's successors reversed most of his innovations in the structure of the Council of Ministers. Since then turnover in its membership has been very low, but has lately accelerated owing to age‐related deaths and retirements and other places have been created to head new agencies, so that it is again becoming an important arena for competition for high office. New government members are of two career types: “career specialists”, who…
Bureaaucratic Politics: An Introduction
New trends in the study of soviet politics
Laughton-en-la-morthen Church, Yorkshire
Party Elections in the Cpsu
Traditional, Market, and Organizational Societies and the USSR
This article represents an attempt to describe Soviet society, and JL particularly the Soviet political system, in terms of a typology of society based on modes of coordinating social activity. It is felt that this approach may be of value in pointing up both some of the similarities and some of the differences between Communist and non-Communist industrialized societies
Howard R. Swearer with Myron Rush, The Politics of Succession in the U.S.S.R: Materials on Khrushchev's Rise to Leadership. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1964. Pages vii, 324. $2.95, paper
Howard R. Swearer with Myron Rush, The Politics of Succession in the U.S.S.R.: Materials on Khrushchev's Rise to Leadership. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1964. Pages vii, 324. $2.95, paper. - Volume 24 Issue 4
The Forming of the Communist International
Stalin
The Disintegrating Monolith: Pluralist Trends in the Communist World
Khrushchev. A Career
The CPSU Elite: Turnover and Rejuvenation from Lenin to Khrushchev
The Soviet leadership: Towards a self‐stabilizing oligarchy
New trends in the study of soviet politics
Russian and East European Studies in Australia
Since the second world war there has been a modest development of Russian studies in Australian universities, reaching significant levels here and there, but virtually nothing has yet been done on eastern Europe. Russian and East European studies have developed more slowly than in America, Britain and Canada, primarily due to the relatively greater priority given to the fostering of Asian studies, for obvious geopolitical reasons. Net khuda bez d…
The Soviet Political Elite 1917–1922
The ‘October Revolution’ gave Russia a new political elite, manifesting very limited continuity with the elite that preceded it. This article has focused on the characteristics of this elite not at the top leadership level but at the level of the few hundred who were most significantly politically at the national stage and the few thousand who were most significant politically in the provinces. The data show that the Revolution dramatically widen…
The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71
(1972). The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71. Soviet Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3-23
Birth of the central soviet bureaucracy
Totalitarianism' and Change in Communist Systems
Bureaaucratic Politics: An Introduction
Siberia and the Pacific: A Study of Economic Development and Trade Prospects
The Birth of the Council of People's Commissars
A behavioural symposium
Carl Beck, Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Milton Lodge, Derek J. Waller, William A. Welsh, M. George Zaninovich, Comparative Communist Political Leadership. New York: David McKay Co., 1973. xi + 319 pp. $12.50. $5.95 (paperback)
Books: Notes & reviews
Australian T. Brennan, New Community, Problems and Policies, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973, pp. 353, $3.95. J. E. Richardson, Patterns of Australian Federalism, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 1, ANU, Canberra, 1973, pp. 142 + x, $4.00. Australian Women in Governments Past and Present, revised as of July, 1973, pp. 15. Survey of Women in Local Government in Australia, 3rd edn, September, 1973, pp. 60. …
The First Proletarian Government
My title is plagiarized from an article written by Trotsky's friend Adolf Ioffe for the second anniversary of the October Revolution.The ‘first proletarian government’ was not the Council of People's Commissars, approved by the Second Congress of Soviets at the time of the seizure of power ‘for the administration of the country up to the convening of the Constituent Assembly’, and described in the enabling decree as ‘the Temporary Worker and Peas…
Addendum to Dr. Rigby's article on CPSU membership
Hough on political participation in the Soviet Union
Soviet communist party membership under Brezhnev
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