Description |
xvi, 942 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Central Intelligence Agency briefing on the Soviet economy / H. Rowen -- The Soviet economy : problems and prospects / A. Nove -- Planning and management / J.S. Berliner -- Lessons of the Brezhnev policies on land and water and the future of reform / T. Gustafson -- The household sector : the view from the bottom / J.R. Millar -- Social stratification and class / D. Lane -- Emergent nationality problems in the USSR / J.R. Azrael -- Information : white Tass and letters to the editor / H. Smith -- The effectiveness of political propaganda in the USSR / S. White -- Society under strain / G.W. Lapidus -- Dissent and political change in the Soviet Union / A. Shtromas -- The Soviet political system / A.G. Meyer -- The peril-points / J.N. Hazard -- On "established" Communist party regimes / R. Lowenthal -- The Soviet Union as an advanced society / C.E. Black |
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The competition between Soviet conservatives and modernizers : domestic and international aspects / R.F. Laird & E.P. Hoffmann -- The harsh decade : Soviet policies in the 1980s / S. Bialer -- Soviet succession : issues and personalities / J.F. Hough -- A different crisis / M. Feshbach -- Muddling through / B.A. Ruble -- Choice and change in Soviet politics / W.E. Odom |
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The mortal danger / A.I. Solzhenitsyn -- Swollen state, spent society : Stalin's legacy to Brezhnev's Russia / R.C. Tucker -- Soviet politics : from the future to the past? / Z. Brzenzinski -- The friends and foes of change : reformism and conservatism in the Soviet Union / S.F. Cohen -- Soviet perspectives on leadership and administration / E.P. Hoffmann -- Party and bureaucracy / R.H.W. Theen -- Soviet insiders : how power flows in Moscow / N. Temko -- Brezhnev and the Communist party / D.P. Hammer -- On the adaptability of Soviet welfare-state authoritarianism / G.W. Breslauer -- The new Soviet constitution of 1977 / R. Sharlet -- USSR : the corrupt society / K.M. Simis -- The powers of the Soviet KGB / A.W. Knight -- Rethinking the organizational weapon : the Soviet system in a systems age / P. Cocks -- War, militarism, and the Soviet state / D. Holloway -- The impact of the military on Soviet society / T.J. Colton |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
SUBJECT |
USSR -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832 -- 1953-
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USSR -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852 -- 1945-
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125849
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USSR -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125856
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Author |
Hoffmann, Erik P., 1939-
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Laird, Robbin F. (Robbin Frederick), 1946-
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LC no. |
84003078 |
ISBN |
0202241645 |
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0202241653 paperback |
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9780202241647 |
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9780202241654 paperback |
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