ON PERSONAL CONNECTIONS SYSTEM IN SOVIET RUSSIA

Abstract

In this review the author analysed the advantages of the monograph of the American scientist about problems of self-identification of the Soviet political elite and offered the list of factors for more detailed analysis of the declared problem. It is obvious that problems of studying of the Stalin period in national history still remain actual. The work of J.M. Easter showed an attempt of a non-standard view of the Soviet state construction.