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Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building: Soviet Russia Reexamined

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Gerald M. Easter
Gerald M. Easter
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The article contends that personal networks may facilitate state-building efforts under postrevolutionary conditions. With the breakdown of formal political structures, personal networks provide an informal social structure along which information may be exchanged, resources may be allocated, and collaborative activities may be planned. To demonstrate this argument, the article returns to the case of Soviet Russia. Using newly available archival sources, the case study shows how informal personal networks intersected with formal political organizations to develop a capacity for territorial administration in the decade following the civil war. The article concludes by suggesting answers to larger questions concerning the success of Soviet state building, the subsequent collapse of the Soviet state, and the implications for comparative state-building theory.

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World Politics , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , July 1996 , pp. 551 - 578
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1996

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52 A network tie is determined by two criteria: (1) evidence of a working relationship (two or more years) in at least one of three milieus (prerevolutionary underground, civil war, postwar consolidation); and/or (2) evidence of friendship or family relationship. Below are the source materials used to determine the informal ties of the regional leadership listed in Figure 1. They include personal correspondence, memoirs, and biographies; RTsKhlDNI refers to the Russian Center for the Preservation and Investigation of Documents of Recent History.

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74 RTsKhlDNI (fn. 54), f. 80, op. 25, d. 11,11.1–14; op. 26, d. 40,11.1–5.

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76 RTsKhlDNI (fn. 54), f. 80, op. 15, d. 45,1.1.

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81 RTsKhlDNI (fn. 54), f. 80, op. 15, d. 45,1.1; op. 17, d. 58,1. 1. 82.

82 RTsKhlDNI (fn. 54), f. 80, op. 17, d. 55,1. 1; op. 18, d. 103,11.1,2; op. 18. d. 105,1. 1.

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