The politics of transition
Subtitle: shaping a post-Soviet future
By: Stephen White, Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider.
Contributors: Gill, Graeme J.; Slider, Darrell.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.
Description: The Soviet system has undergone a dramatic transformation: from communist monopoly to multiparty politics, from Marxism to competing values, from centralisation to fragmentation, and from state ownership to a mixed economy. This book, by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, traces the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to its uncertain post-communist future.

The authors analyse the full impact of transition on official and popular values, central and local political institutions, post-Soviet republics, the CPSU and the parties which replaced it, and political participation. A final chapter considers the problematic nature of this form of 'democracy from above'.

Detailed but clearly and accessibly written, The politics of transition provides an ideal guide to the changes that have been taking place in the politics of the newly independent nations that together constitute a sixth of the world's land surface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-273) and index.