CfP: Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Kolloquiumsvortrag
18:15 Uhr, IW3 0330 / Zoom
Sheila Fitzpatrick (Melbourne)
Lost Souls. Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War
Summerschool European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
25.-26. August 2025 (online), 01.-10. September 2025
Deadline: 06.05.2025
FSO Bremen und Paris; Prag und Paris
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Institutionalising Authoritarian Presidencies: Polymorphous Power and Russia’s Presidential Administration
Ein Teil der an der FSO betreuten Promotion von Fabian Burkhardt ist jetzt bei der Zeitschrift Europe-Asia Studies veröffentlicht worden: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2020.1749566
Abstract
This article attempts to open up the ‘black box’ of the Russian Presidential Administration (‘the Kremlin’). Borrowing from the literature on institutional presidencies and institutional approaches to authoritarianism, I argue that the administration institutionalised over the years of study, 1994–2012. More stable and predictable procedures enhanced administrative presidential powers but personalism and non-compliance with presidential orders remained. Original data on budget, staff, units, organisational structure and presidential assignments demonstrate that presidential power ought to be conceptualised as a polymorphous phenomenon that varies depending on the level of analysis. Researchers should refrain from over-personalising accounts of authoritarian regimes at the expense of more structural, organisational elements such as ‘institutional presidencies’.
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