The Soviet Polity in the Modern EraErik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird |
Contents
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Soviet Politics From the Future to the Past? | 69 |
The Friends and Foes of Change Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union | 85 |
Soviet Perspectives on Leadership and Administration | 109 |
Party and Bureaucracy | 131 |
Soviet Insiders How Power Flows in Moscow | 167 |
Brezhnev and the Communist Party | 193 |
The Household Sector The View from the Bottom | 529 |
Social Stratification and Class | 563 |
Emergent Nationality Problems in the USSR | 607 |
Information White Tass and Letters to the Editor | 633 |
The Effectiveness of Political Propaganda in the USSR | 663 |
Society under Strain | 691 |
Dissent and Political Change in the Soviet Union | 717 |
The Soviet Political System | 753 |
On the Adaptability of Soviet WelfareState Authoritarianism | 219 |
The New Soviet Constitution of 1977 | 247 |
USSR The Corrupt Society | 293 |
The Powers of the Soviet KGB | 311 |
Rethinking the Organizational Weapon The Soviet System in a Systems Age | 331 |
War Militarism and the Soviet State | 359 |
The Impact of the Military on Soviet Society | 393 |
Central Intelligence Agency Briefing on the Soviet Economy | 417 |
The Soviet Economy Problems and Prospects | 447 |
Planning and Management | 467 |
Lessons of the Brezhnev Policies on Land and Water and the Future of Reform | 511 |
The PerilPoints | 771 |
On Established Communist Party Regimes | 785 |
The Soviet Union as an Advanced Society | 809 |
The Competition between Soviet Conservatives and Modernizers Domestic and International Aspects | 825 |
The Harsh Decade Soviet Policies in the 1980s | 841 |
Soviet Succession Issues and Personalities | 861 |
A Different Crisis | 895 |
Muddling Through | 903 |
Choice and Change in Soviet Politics | 915 |
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