2006
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Gérard Duménil, « L'« absolutisme bureaucratique » selon Moshe Lewin », Actuel Marx, ID : 10670/1.vyg2ty
This brief article comments on Moshe Lewin’s last book (Le siècle soviétique, Fayard, Paris, 2003). The book can be considered as the best documented study of Soviet Union. Lewin’s characterisation of the soviet system as bureaucratic absolutism is, however, disappointing, and contrasts with the identification of the new “managerial” ruling class, its grip on resourses and state power.