Power in the Party: The Organization of Power and Central-Republican Relations in the CPSU

by G. Gill, R. Pitty

Overview

This book examines the course of official criticism of republican leaderships in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Stalin's death until the collapse of central control in the late 1980s. It focuses upon five republics, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belorussia. The extraordinary power of the central leadership to replace particular republican leaders is contrasted with the continuing dominance of elite politics in these republics by local cliques with substantial and increasing autonomy from Moscow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333666562
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/13/1996
Series:	Organization of Power and Central-Republican Relations in th
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

GRAEME GILL
RODERIC PITTY

Table of Contents

Preface - Glossary - What Sort of Organisation was the Communist Party? - Campaigning for Reform - Variants of Republican Autonomy - Radicalism During the 1980s - Why this Pattern? - The Pattern of Power - Conclusion: The Weakness of Infrastructural Power - Index

Editorial Reviews

Explores the role of Communist Party leaders of five Soviet Republics to show some of the tensions and texture that characterized the ruling institution many westerners thought and think of as monolithic and all-powerful. Drawing on the press in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belorussia between Stalin's death the collapse of authority under Gorbachev, describes the nature of republican power and its implications both for effective government and reform. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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