Download or read book Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics written by Graeme Gill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The strategies used by the most prominent leader in each period – Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev – to acquire and retain power are counterposed to the strategies used by the other oligarchs to protect themselves and sustain their positions. This is analyzed against the backdrop of the emergence of norms designed to structure oligarch politics. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of political leadership, Soviet politics and Soviet history.
Download or read book Collective Leadership and the Political Police in the Soviet Union written by Elsa Bernaut and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership and Succession in the Soviet Union Eastern Europe and China written by Martin McCauley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. The papers in this volume were originally delivered at a series of seminars held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, between January and May 1984. The inspiration for the scheme was the Soviet succession struggle of 1982 but further reflection indicated that the problem of elderly leaderships, and the apparent absence of legitimate succession mechanisms, applied to nearly all communist systems.
Download or read book Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders Routledge Revivals written by George W. Breslauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform, and political participation. The author rejects the conventional images of Khrushchev as an embattled consumer advocate and decentraliser, and of Brezhnev’s leadership as dull and conservative. He looks at how they dealt with the task of devising programs that combined the post-Stalin elite’s goals of consumer satisfaction and expanded political participation with traditional Soviet values.
Download or read book On Stalin s Team written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanatory Note -- Glossary -- The Team Emerges -- The Great Break -- In Power -- The Team on View -- The Great Purges -- Into War -- Postwar Hopes -- Aging Leader -- Without Stalin -- End of the Road -- Biographies
Download or read book Political Leadership in the Soviet Union written by Archie Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central leadership of the Soviet political system in Moscow is analyzed by a group of Western political researchers. The text covers the entire Soviet period from 1917 to the present day, but special emphasis is placed on the post-Stalin years and new developments of the 1980s.
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.
Download or read book Soviet Politics and Society written by Stanley Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Political Process written by Sidney I. Ploss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Questions in Soviet Government and Politics written by Francis Geoffrey Castles and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master of the House written by Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia’s political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin’s rise. Khlevniuk’s unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov’s murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin’s mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.
Download or read book Soviet Politics the Dilemma of Power written by Barrington Moore and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Change in Communist States written by Ray Taras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Failure of Collective Security 1934 1938 written by Jiří Hochman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Soviet Politics written by Robert J. Osborn and published by Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press ; Georgetown, Ont. : Irwin-Dorsey. This book was released on 1974 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communist Totalitarianism written by Bertram D. Wolfe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides some of the elements of a general theory of totalitarianism with specific analysis of its manifestations in the various aspects of Soviet life. It will be useful in making clearer the conformation behind the calculated and bewildering changes in the day-to-day Soviet line.
Download or read book The Communist Party of the Soviet Union written by Boris Meissner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
