The Dynamics Of Soviet Politics

Author : Paul Cocks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674218819
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Soviet Politics written by Paul Cocks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walt Whitman Rostow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Soviet Society written by Walt Whitman Rostow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip G. Roeder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843812
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sunset written by Philip G. Roeder and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Barbara B. Green
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Russian Politics written by Barbara B. Green and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Political Dynamics written by Philip G. Roeder and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry E. Hale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107073510
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patronal Politics written by Henry E. Hale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising authoritarianism, or revolution. Where the rule of law is weak and corruption pervasive, what may appear to be democratic or authoritarian breakthroughs are often just regular, predictable phases in longer-term cyclic dynamics - patronal politics. This is shown through in-depth narratives of the post-1991 political history of all post-Soviet polities that are not in the European Union. This book also includes chapters on czarist and Soviet history and on global patterns.

Author : Hafeez Malik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349105732
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet-Pakistan Relations and Post-Soviet Dynamics, 1947–92 written by Hafeez Malik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501224
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics written by Graeme Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400874211
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Stalin's Team written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle—from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu—one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence.

Author : Yakov Feygin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674296656
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a Ruin written by Yakov Feygin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.