2nd Edition
The Ussr The Politics Of Oligarchy, Second Edition, Fully Revised And Updated
By Darrell P. Hammer
Copyright 1986
272 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this text, Dr. Hammer presents an analytical model of the Soviet political system and its process of political decisionmaking, based on the theory of "bureaucratic pluralism." He interprets the Soviet regime as a product of three different influences: the Tsarist tradition of nondemocratic rule, the revolutionary movement that overthrew Tsarism, and the Stalinism of 1924-1953. Since the death... Read more
Preface -- Vision and Reality in Soviet Politics -- Twentieth-Century Russia -- The Collective Society -- Soviet Political Ideology and Doctrine -- The Communist Party -- The All-Union Government -- Government and Administration in the Provinces -- From Brezhnev to Gorbachev -- Law Enforcement and Human Rights -- The Industrial and Military Bureaucracies -- Public Policy and the Welfare State -- Bureaucratic Pluralism -- Afterword: The 27th Party Congress
Biography
Darrell P. Hammer is professor of political science at Indiana University. He was formerly a senior scholar at the Russian Institute of Columbia University and an exchange scholar in the USSR Academy of Sciences.
