The Dynamics Of Soviet Politics
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Author | : Paul Cocks |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674218819 |
The Dynamics of Soviet Politics is the result of reflective and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to ferret out secrets. The expert authors offer an inside view of the workings of this closed system a view rarely found elsewhere in discussions of Soviet affairs. Their work, building as it does on the achievements of Soviet studies over the last thirty years, is firmly rooted in established knowledge and covers sufficient new ground to enable future studies of Soviet politics and social practices to move ahead unencumbered by stereotypes, sensationalism, or mystification. Among the subjects included are: attitudes toward leadership and a general discussion of the uses of political history; the dramatic cycles of officially permitted dissent; the legitimacy of leadership within a system that has no constitutional provision for succession; the gradual adoption of Western-inspired administrative procedures and "systems management"; a study of group competition, and bureaucratic bargaining; Khrushchev's virgin-lands experiment and its subsequent retrenchment; the apolitical values of adolescents; the problems of integrating Central Asia into the Soviet system; a history of peaceful coexistence and its current importance in Soviet foreign policy priorities, and, finally, an overview of Soviet government as an extension of prerevolutionary oligarchy, with an emphasis on adaptation to political change.
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Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Walt Whitman Rostow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Social sciences study of the evolution of the USSR - covers political ideologies, the social structure, the economy, leadership, the armed forces, administrative aspects, foreign policies, government policies, economic aid, etc., and includes historical aspects. References and selected bibliography pp. 296 to 302.
Author | : Barbara B. Green |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1994-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
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This work focuses on problems of economic development, modernisation, effective control, and upon the democratic evolution of Russia, examining and explaining the shortcomings of the Soviet system. It addresses questions about the nature of political, economic and social development.
Author | : Philip G. Roeder |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400843812 |
Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited. In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.
Author | : Philip G. Roeder |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Graeme Gill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139501224 |
Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in party policy and leaders' speeches, artwork and political posters, and urban redevelopment, and on ritual in the political system. He shows how this symbolism and ritual were worked into a dominant metanarrative which underpinned Soviet political development. Gill also shows how, in each of these spheres, the images changed both over the life of the regime and during particular stages: the Leninist era metanarrative differed from that of the Stalin period, which differed from that of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, which was, in turn, changed significantly under Gorbachev. In charting this development, the book lays bare the dynamics of the Soviet regime and a major reason for its fall.
Author | : Yakov Feygin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674296656 |
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed. What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological—communism was simply destined to fail. When Yakov Feygin studied the question, he came to another conclusion: at least one crucial factor was a deep contradiction within the Soviet political economy brought about by the country’s attempt to transition from Stalinist mass mobilization to a consumer society. Building a Ruin explores what happened in the Soviet Union as institutions designed for warfighting capacity and maximum heavy industrial output were reimagined by a new breed of reformers focused on “peaceful socioeconomic competition.” From Khrushchev on, influential schools of Soviet planning measured Cold War success in the same terms as their Western rivals: productivity, growth, and the availability of abundant and varied consumer goods. The shift was both material and intellectual, with reformers taking a novel approach to economics. Instead of trumpeting their ideological bona fides and leveraging their connections with party leaders, the new economists stressed technical expertise. The result was a long and taxing struggle for the meaning of communism itself, as old-guard management cadres clashed with reformers over the future of central planning and the state’s relationship to the global economic order. Feygin argues that Soviet policymakers never resolved these tensions, leading to stagnation, instability, and eventually collapse. Yet the legacy of reform lingers, its factional dynamics haunting contemporary Russian politics.
Author | : Hafeez Malik |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349105732 |
This book deserves to be read carefully by scholars and laymen of foreign policy dealing with the former Soviet Union, Russia and South Asia, and particularly by the political leaders of India and Pakistan. The book is a multi-dimensional analysis of (a) Soviet-American rivalry; (b) Soviet determination to expand in the direction of South Asia and the Gulf; (c) the regional dynamics of the Middle East most especially Iran, Afghanistan and China, the major power in Asia.
Author | : Mark A Heller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000316068 |
This study examines the extent to which new political thinking has been applied to Soviet policy in the Middle East and aims to speculate about the possible impact of any changes on patterns of international relations in the region.