Soviet Politics 1917-1991 / Edition 1

by Mary McAuley

Overview

Based on extensive research and firsthand knowledge of the Soviet system, this is a stimulating analysis of the developments which sustained, then finally undermined, the Communist regime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900198780679
Publication date:	11/12/1992
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Mary McAuley is a respected Sovietologist who teaches at Oxford University. She is the author of many books on the Soviet Union, most recently Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd (Oxford, 1991).

Table of Contents

Introduction1. 1917: Revolution2. State Building: The Leninist System3. Industrialization, Collectivization, and the Stalinist State4. Terror5. Khrushchev and Party Rule6. The Administrative Command System Brezhnev7. iPerestroika/i and the End of Party Rule8. The Dispersal of PowerConclusion