Power and Politics in the Soviet Union: The Crumbling of an Empire

by Leo Cooper, Philip Hanson (Foreword by)

Overview

Analyzes the nature of power in the USSR and its evolution since the Bolshevik Revolution. The main thrust of this work, however, is in tracing the fragmentation of power since Gorbachev introduced his reforms and examining the changes in the power structure as a result of perestroika.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349128471
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Political power and Soviet society; transformation of power in the USSR; the ruler, the party and the bureaucracy - traditional sources of power in the USSR; the military and the KGB; the government and the parliament; republics and nationalities; Soviet society - people's power?; three days that shook the world; whither the Soviet Union?