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(2010) Russian politics from Lenin to Putin, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The 1982 volume edited by T.H. Rigby and Ferenc Fehér, Political Legitimation in Communist States, was a seminal work.1 Not only did it open up a whole new dimension of Communist politics, but it also introduced the concept of goal-rational legitimation to theories of legitimacy.2 In doing so, it alerted us to the fact that the classic Weberian three-fold approach to legitimacy was in serious need of an update and expansion, particularly if it was to apply to Communist systems.3
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Holmes, L. (2010)., Legitimation and legitimacy in Russia revisited, in S. Fortescue (ed.), Russian politics from Lenin to Putin, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-126.
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