Download or read book Leadership Selection and Patron–Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia written by T.H. Rigby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Selection and Patron-Client Relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia (1983) examines the system of nomenklatura, the semi-secret network of quasi-bureaucratic rules and personal relationships through which careers in Soviet politics were managed. Other Communist countries took the USSR as their prototype and their patronage relationship systems are included in this study.