Substate Dictatorship

Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

Gorlizki Yoram, Khlevniuk Oleg

How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, they chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks.

About the Author

Yoram Gorlizki is professor of politics at the University of Manchester.

Oleg Khlevniuk is professor of history at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and the author of "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator".

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