Osobennosti natsional'noi biurokratii: s tsarskikh vremen do epokhi Putina - Shcherbakov Aleksei Iur'evich

Alexey Scherbakov, writer and publicist, historian, is known to readers from the books "Russian political emigration. From Kurbsky to Berezovsky, Stalin vs. Trotsky, 1905. Prelude of Disaster" et al. In his new book, A. Scherbakov shows Russian bureaucracy ("nettle seed," as the estate was called in Russia) in different eras - under the tsars, in the USSR, in the post-Soviet state; he writes about the eternal vices of officials, which even Stalin could not fully overcome. Addressing the bureaucracy under Yeltsin and Putin, the author highlights the special rules of the game, which she established: readers learn how to get rid of the problem, instead of solving it, about the "law of necessarily deception", about Russian ways to "negotiate" in informal environment and other "inventions" of the current "nettle seed".