1st Edition

Executive Power and Soviet Politics

By Eugene Huskey Copyright 1992
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Ever since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive... Read more
The State in Imperial Russia and the USSR; 1: The Government in the Soviet Political System; 2: Party-State Relations; 3: Executive-Legislative Relations; 4: The Rise of Presidential Power under Gorbachev; The State and the Economy; 5: The Ministry of Finance; 6: The Industrial Ministries; 7: The Agricultural Ministries; The State and Security; 8: The Ministry of Defense; 9: The Ministry of Internal Affairs; 10: The Administration of Justice: Courts, Procuracy, and Ministry of Justice; The State and The Future; 11: The Rebirth of the Russian State

Biography

Eugene Huskey