The Soviet Party-state
Author : Carl A. Linden
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Carl A. Linden
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Northrup Harper
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN :
The Soviet system, as it came to be called from the name of its governmental organs, was not only the product of revolution; it became the instrument of a continuing revolution. Its authors still insist on the essentially revolutionary character of their regime even after 20 years. At the present writing the Bolsheviks speak of a "turning-point" in the political life of the country and in the politics of the Revolution, which is taking the form of new constitutions and at the same time of the most extensive and ruthless "purge" in the history of the Revolution. Under a revolutionary regime of constant and intense struggle, political control and manipulation have been extended to all fields. Thus the Soviet system represents a type of "totalitarian" state. It will be necessary in this analysis of the Government of the Soviet union to include institutions and organizations that ordinarily play only secondary roles in the political structure of a community. The Soviet trade or labor unions and the cooperative societies have functions which would be classified as essentially governmental in Western parliamentary systems. The word "government" in the title must therefore be understood in a very broad sense. It would perhaps have been more correct to have titled this study "the functioning of Bolshevism." - Preface.
Author : Vinayank N. Srivastava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 042977253X
First published in 1999, this volume is the first full length study of one of the most important political institutions of the erstwhile Soviet political system – the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The originality of this work lies in its main argument that the central reform during Perestroika was that of the Party and the State – a reform which ultimately resulted in the CPSU and its institutions, the Central Committee being one of the most vital among them – firstly, surrendering the monopoly over political power and control over the instrumentalities of the State and secondly, systematically de-institutionalising and dismantling the formidable Soviet political system. The seeds of transformation and the shape of politico-economic and socio-cultural systems that emerged in successor States were laid down during the Soviet era – in particular during Perestroika itself. The continuity is, therefore, as striking as the change – if not more so.
Author : Rüdiger Bergien
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1785337777
The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national and transnational contexts, the contributions assembled here reconstruct the rituals of party meetings, functionaries’ informal practices, intra-party power struggles, and the social production of ideology to give a detailed account of state socialist policymaking on a micro-historical scale.
Author : Mervyn Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
The command system has long pervaded nearly every area of Soviet life. This volume documents the prescriptions and proscriptions that have governed everyday life in the Soviet Union policies that are currently undergoing reexamination and revision. Among the topics covered are voting and party organ
Author : Eugene Huskey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315486555
Ever since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive prerogative are unresolved. This volume, brings together original studies of the Soviet executive under Gorbachev by specialists including Barbara Chotiner, Stephen Fortescue, Brnda Horrigan, Ellen Jones, Wayne Limberg, T.H. Rigby and Louise Shelley. Among the topics covered are the major economic, national security and law enforcement ministries, the presidency, the cabinet and questions of presidential-ministerial, presidential-presidential, legislative-executive and party-state relations.
Author : Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0195040163
Written in 1985, this book cuts through the Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and later political realities. The author probes Soviet history, society, and politics to explain how the U.S.S.R. remained stable from revolution through the mid-1980s.
Author : Joseph L. Nogee
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Pat Sloan
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN :
Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : London : Bodley Head
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Political Science
ISBN :