The Soviet political process : aims, techniques, and examples of analysis

viii, 304 pages ; 23 cm. ex-library with stamp. Contents: Interest groups and Communist politics, by H.G. Skilling. -- Group theory and the study of Soviet politics, by M.P. Gehlen. -- Getting at the facts behind the Soviet facade, by F. Borkenau. -- Questions of evidence, by R. Conquest. -- The language of conflict, by S.I. Ploss. -- Technicians of power versus managers of technique, by E. Kux. -- New lineup in the Kremlin, by I. Deutscher. -- The Soviet Union before the 22nd CPSU Congress: Khrushchev's domestic policy, by B. Meissner. -- Deadlock in the Party Presidium, by S.I. Ploss. -- Khrushchev's power position -- polycentrism within the Soviet ruling group, by D. Burg and P. Wiles. -- The fall of Khrushchev -- a tentative analysis, by P.B. Reddaway. -- Pressure groups, by I. Deutscher. -- The rise of Brezhnev, by S.I. Ploss.