From Brezhnev to Gorbachev
Subtitle: infighting in the Kremlin
By: Baruch A. Hazan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780429036392
Subjects: Politics and government; Elite (Social sciences); Politique et gouvernement; Élite (Sciences sociales); POLITICAL SCIENCE; Essays; Government; General; National; Reference
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; About the Book and Author; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 INTRODUCTION; Development of the Communist Concept of Leadership; Features of Soviet Leadership and Succession; Stages of the Power Struggle; 2 SUCCESSION IN THE USSR: BREZHNEV'S TWILIGHT AND DEATH; Succession After Stalin's Death; Transition After Khrushchev's Ousting; Possible Successors to Brezhnev; Chernenko as Heir Apparent; 3 ANDROPOV SUCCEEDS: RUDIMENTARY CONSOLIDATION; Characterization of Andropov's Tenure; Andropov's Power Base; Andropov as General Secretary-Mixed Signals; title: Chernenko as a Defeated Rival-Mixed SignalsThe Press-Mixed Signals; Gorbachev-The Third Man; 4 ANDROPOV'S ECLIPSE: RULING BY REMOTE CONTROL; The Plenum; The Supreme Soviet Session; Succession Struggle; 5 THE SECOND CHANCE: CHERNENKO SUCCEEDS, THE TWOFOLD DECISION; Stalemate in the Politburo; Andropov's Legacy; Chernenko's Succession amid Strife and Hesitation; The Plenum-A Twofold Decision?; Chernenko's Power Base; Chernenko-Attempts to Consolidate; 6 TOO LATE, TOO SHORT: CHERNENKO RULES; Media Evidence of Kremlin Strife; Evidence of Chernenko's Limited Power; Chernenko's Health Deteriorates; title: Gorbachev Moves to the ForefrontChernenko Returns Briefly; Gorbachev's Temporary Setback; Gorbachev's Reappearance; Ustinov's Death; Campaign for the Supreme Soviet; 7 THE SMOOTH SUCCESSION: GORBACHEV AT THE HELM; Gorbachev's Political Persona and Power Base; Gorbachev's Friends and Foes; Gorbachev Consolidates; The April Plenum-Gorbachev in Control; 8 CLEARING AWAY THE DEBRIS; THE SECOND FRONT; Romanov's Decline; New Appointments; July 1985 Central Committee Plenum; July 1985 Supreme Soviet Session; Gorbachev Sweeps Away the Debris; 9 CLOSING THE CIRCLE-THE CONGRESS; title: Gorbachev Continues Party OverhaulGeneva Summit; Anticorruption Campaign; The Congress; The Politburo; The Secretariat; The Central Committee; 10 CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A: Indicators for Ranking of Soviet Leaders; Notes; Index