Mechanisms of Power in the Soviet Union
Contributors: Niels Erik Rosenfeldt (Editor); Bent Jensen (Editor); Erik Kulavig (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 19, 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780333771402
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
First sentence: The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 represents not just the rejection of socialist ideals in the form in which they were realized in the USSR, but the collapse of the mechanism of power that was at the heart of the Soviet system.