This book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the party was reformable in late Soviet times, but that attempts to reform it failed: reforms succeeded in preventing the party interfering in the state body, and thereby abolished the party's traditional administrative functions, but without creating an alternative power centre, and without transforming the...
This book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new inform...
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.
Based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, this book provides a great deal of information on the disintegration of the Sov...
