Author: Paul Cocks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674218819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Dynamics of Soviet Politics is the result of reflective and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to ferret out secrets. The expert authors offer an inside view of the workings of this closed system a view rarely found elsewhere in discussions of Soviet affairs. Their work, building as it does on the achievements of Soviet studies over the last thirty years, is firmly rooted in established knowledge and covers sufficient new ground to enable future studies of Soviet politics and social practices to move ahead unencumbered by stereotypes, sensationalism, or mystification. Among the subjects included are: attitudes toward leadership and a general discussion of the uses of political history; the dramatic cycles of officially permitted dissent; the legitimacy of leadership within a system that has no constitutional provision for succession; the gradual adoption of Western-inspired administrative procedures and "systems management"; a study of group competition, and bureaucratic bargaining; Khrushchev's virgin-lands experiment and its subsequent retrenchment; the apolitical values of adolescents; the problems of integrating Central Asia into the Soviet system; a history of peaceful coexistence and its current importance in Soviet foreign policy priorities, and, finally, an overview of Soviet government as an extension of prerevolutionary oligarchy, with an emphasis on adaptation to political change.
The Dynamics of Soviet Politics
Author: Paul Cocks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674218819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Dynamics of Soviet Politics is the result of reflective and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to ferret out secrets. The expert authors offer an inside view of the workings of this closed system a view rarely found elsewhere in discussions of Soviet affairs. Their work, building as it does on the achievements of Soviet studies over the last thirty years, is firmly rooted in established knowledge and covers sufficient new ground to enable future studies of Soviet politics and social practices to move ahead unencumbered by stereotypes, sensationalism, or mystification. Among the subjects included are: attitudes toward leadership and a general discussion of the uses of political history; the dramatic cycles of officially permitted dissent; the legitimacy of leadership within a system that has no constitutional provision for succession; the gradual adoption of Western-inspired administrative procedures and "systems management"; a study of group competition, and bureaucratic bargaining; Khrushchev's virgin-lands experiment and its subsequent retrenchment; the apolitical values of adolescents; the problems of integrating Central Asia into the Soviet system; a history of peaceful coexistence and its current importance in Soviet foreign policy priorities, and, finally, an overview of Soviet government as an extension of prerevolutionary oligarchy, with an emphasis on adaptation to political change.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674218819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Dynamics of Soviet Politics is the result of reflective and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to ferret out secrets. The expert authors offer an inside view of the workings of this closed system a view rarely found elsewhere in discussions of Soviet affairs. Their work, building as it does on the achievements of Soviet studies over the last thirty years, is firmly rooted in established knowledge and covers sufficient new ground to enable future studies of Soviet politics and social practices to move ahead unencumbered by stereotypes, sensationalism, or mystification. Among the subjects included are: attitudes toward leadership and a general discussion of the uses of political history; the dramatic cycles of officially permitted dissent; the legitimacy of leadership within a system that has no constitutional provision for succession; the gradual adoption of Western-inspired administrative procedures and "systems management"; a study of group competition, and bureaucratic bargaining; Khrushchev's virgin-lands experiment and its subsequent retrenchment; the apolitical values of adolescents; the problems of integrating Central Asia into the Soviet system; a history of peaceful coexistence and its current importance in Soviet foreign policy priorities, and, finally, an overview of Soviet government as an extension of prerevolutionary oligarchy, with an emphasis on adaptation to political change.
The Dynamics of Soviet Society. By W. W. Rostow in collaboration with Alfred Levin, etc. [Revised by the author.]
The Dynamics of Soviet Society
The Dynamics of Soviet Society
Author: Walt W. Rostow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Dynamics of Soviet Society
Author: Walt Whitman Rostow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Social sciences study of the evolution of the USSR - covers political ideologies, the social structure, the economy, leadership, the armed forces, administrative aspects, foreign policies, government policies, economic aid, etc., and includes historical aspects. References and selected bibliography pp. 296 to 302.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Social sciences study of the evolution of the USSR - covers political ideologies, the social structure, the economy, leadership, the armed forces, administrative aspects, foreign policies, government policies, economic aid, etc., and includes historical aspects. References and selected bibliography pp. 296 to 302.
The dynamics of Soviet society, in collaboration with Alfred Levin, and the assistance of others at the center of international studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Dynamics of Soviet Society
Author: Walt Whitman Rostow (Economiste)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Dynamics of Soviet Society
Dynamics of Soviet Society
Author: Brenda Jackson
Publisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451601216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451601216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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