THE DYNAMICS OF SOVIET POLITICS

Cocks, Paul, Robert V. Daniels and Nancy Whittier Heer

ISBN 10: 0674218817 / ISBN 13: 9780674218819

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Authors: Paul Cocks is with the Hoover Institution

Robert V. Daniels is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Vermont.

Nancy Whittier Heer teaches Political Science and has been Provost of Wheaton College.

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE DYNAMICS OF SOVIET POLITICS
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG+/VG
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition