The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party

ISBN-13: 9780415542685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Atsushi Ogushi

Opis

Based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, this book provides a great deal of information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that the party was reformable in late Soviet times, but that attempts to reform it failed.

Spis treści

1. Understanding the Soviet Collapse  2. The Phase of Crisis: The General Problem in the USSR  3. Streamlining the Party Apparat: Party-State Relations  4. Failure of Becoming a ‘Political Party’: Party Elections and Party Unity  5. Financial Crisis and Commercial Activities  6. Party and Security Organs in the August Attempted Coup  7. Some Conclusions.  Appendix 1: On the Nomenklatura System and Nomenklatura as a Social Class.  Appendix 2: The Mechanism of Budget Formation 

O autorze

Atsushi Ogushi is JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University, Japan. His main research interests are Soviet and Russian politics, and his articles have appeared in The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, among others.