Mechanisms of Power in the Soviet Union
Contributors: Niels Erik Rosenfeldt (Editor); Bent Jensen (Editor); Erik Kulavig (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780312230890
Subjects: Political History; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Government - Comparative; Post-Communism; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Congresses; Foreign relations; Politics and government; Power (Social sciences); Soviet Union
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.