The Dynamics of Soviet Politics / / ed. by Robert V. Daniels, Paul Cocks, Nancy Whittier Heer.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Russian Research Center Studies ; 76
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Physical Description:1 online resource (427 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PART ONE. Problems and Perspectives
  • 1. Do We Know All There Is to Know about the USSR?
  • PART TWO. Political Leadership and Power
  • 2. Political Leadership in Soviet Historiography: Cult or Collective?
  • 3. Permitted Dissent in the Decade after Stalin: Criticism and Protest in Novy mir, 1953-1964
  • 4. Toward a Theory of Soviet Leadership Maintenance
  • 5. Office Holding and Elite Status: The Central Committee of the CPSU
  • 6. The Problem of Succession
  • 7. Party "Saturation" in the Soviet Union
  • PART THREE. The Policy Process: Administration and Control
  • 8. The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Soviet Administrative Debate
  • 9. The Policy Process and Bureaucratic Politics
  • 10. The Virgin Lands since Khrushchev: Choices and Decisions in Soviet Policy Making
  • PART FOUR. Political Development and Social Change
  • 11. Socialism and Modernity: Education, Industrialization, and Social Change in the USSR
  • 12. Values and Aspirations of Soviet Youth
  • Modernization, Generations, and the Uzbek Soviet Intelligentsia
  • 14. Modernization and National Policy in Soviet Central Asia: Problems and Prospects
  • PART FIVE. Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy
  • 15. Peaceful Coexistence: From Heresy to Orthodoxy
  • 16. Global Power Relationships in the Seventies: The View from the Kremlin
  • PART SIX. Some Reflections
  • 17. Soviet Politics: From the Future to the Past?
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES