The Dynamics of Soviet Politics
Published on 1. January 1976
Book
Hardback
351 pages
978-0-674-21881-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reviews / Votes
This substantial volume was written and compiled by former students of the late Merle Fainsod, and is dedicated to his memory. The range of approaches to Soviet politics embodied in this collection do indeed reflect Fainsod's own approach: a combination of eclecticism, common sense, attention to history, assiduous compilation of data, and a willingness to entertain behavioral strategies in certain limited areas where they offer hope of meaningful insights...[This volume contains] examples of the cutting edge of new research. -- Robert J. Osborn Russian Review In between these stimulating essays [by Adam Ulam and Zbigniew Brzezinski] we find articles tracing the historical evolution of concepts, fields, and policies...and a second group of articles offering close analyses of narrower aspects of Soviet policy (party membership, Virgin Lands, youth, succession and leadership, and so forth). The essays are generally of superior quality, and this anthology will be of considerable interest and use to both students and scholars. -- Zvi Gitelman Slavic ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-21881-9 (9780674218819)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Paul Cocks is with the Hoover Institution Robert V. Daniels is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Vermont. Nancy Whittier Heer teaches Political Science and has been Provost of Wheaton College.
Content
I. Problems And Perspectives 1. Do We Know All There Is to Know about the USSR? Adam B. Ulam II. Political Leadership and Power 2. Political Leadership in Soviet Historiography: Cult or Collective? Nancy Whittier Heer 3. Permitted Dissent in the Decade after Stalin: Criticism and Protest in Novy mir, 1955-1964 Dina Spechler 4. Toward a Theory of Soviet Leadership Maintenance Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone 5. Office Holding and Elite Status: The Central Committee of the CPSU Robert V. Daniels 6. The Problem of Succession John H. Hodgson 7. Party "Saturation" in the Soviet Union Jerry F. Hough III. The Policy Process: Administration and Control 8. The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Soviet Administrative Debate Robert F. Miller 9. The Policy Process and Bureaucratic Politics Paul Cocks 10. The Virgin Lands since Khrushchev: Choices and Decisions in Soviet Policy Making Richard M. Mills IV. Political Development and Social Change 11. Socialism and Modernity: Education, Industrialization, and Social Change in the USSR Gail Warshofsky Lapidus 12. Values and Aspirations of Soviet Youth Ruth W. Mouly 13. Modernization, Generations, and the Uzbek Soviet Intelligensia Donald S. Carlisle 14. Modernization and National Policy in Soviet Central Asia: Problems and Prospects Gregory J. Massell V. Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy 15. Peaceful Coexistence: From Heresy to Orthodoxy Paul Marantz 16. Global Power Relationships in the Seventies: The View from the Kremlin Robert H. Donaldson VI. Some Reflections 17. Soviet Politics: From the Future to the Past? Zbigniew Brzezinski Notes Contributors Index