The demise of the Soviet Communist Party
By: Atsushi Ogushi.
Series: Basees/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415434393; 9780203937990
Subjects: Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991; Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1985-1991
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the Soviet collapse; title: The phase of crisis : the general problem in the USSR; title: Streamlining the Party apparat : party-state relations; title: Failure of becoming a "political party" : Party elections and Party unity; title: Financial crisis and commercial activities; title: Party and security organs in the August attempted coup; title: Some conclusions.