Red sunset : the failure of Soviet politics /

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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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roeder, Philip G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Constitutional history > Soviet Union.
Authoritarianism > Soviet Union.
Histoire constitutionnelle > URSS.
Autoritarisme > URSS.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Authoritarianism
Constitutional history
Politics and government
Soviet Union > Politics and government.
USSR
URSS > Politique et gouvernement.
Soviet Union
Administrative Organs Department.
Bunce, Valerie.
Cabinet of Ministers.
Central Asian republics.
Central Control Commission.
Council of the Federation.
Hosking, Geoffrey.
Jones, Ellen.
Kommunist.
Komsomol.
Ministry of State Farms.
Organization Party Work Department.
Orgburo.
Politburo.
Procuracy.
Rush, Myron.
Savinkin, Nikolai I.
Socialist Revolutionary party.
United Opposition.
Willerton, John P.
Zemtsov, Ilya.
Zimyatin, Leonid.
accountability.
armed forces.
balancing.
clientelism.
constitution.
democratic centralism.
disqualification of leaders.
economic priorities.
forced departicipation.
generalist and specialist roles.
great man theories.
institutionalization.
integrated electoral machine.
learning theory.
logrolling.
loose coupling.
military thought.
normal politics.
partisan analysis.
political interests model.
power and authority.
regimes.
revenue-seeking state.
selectoral motivation.
selectorate.
sovnarkhozy.
stagnation.
unenfranchised participants.
vice-president of the USSR.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE Why Did Soviet Bolshevism Fail?
  • CHAPTER TWO The Authoritarian Constitution
  • CHAPTER THREE Creating the Constitution of Bolshevism, 1917-1953
  • CHAPTER FOUR Reciprocal Accountability, 1953-1986
  • CHAPTER FIVE Balanced Leadership, 1953-1986
  • CHAPTER SIX Institutionalized Stagnation
  • CHAPTER SEVEN The Domestic Policy Spiral
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Dialectics of Military Planning
  • CHAPTER NINE The Failure of Constitutional Reform,1987-1991
  • CHAPTER TEN Can Authoritarian Institutions Survive?
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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