Title: The politics of transition
First published: 1993
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Politischer Wandel, Nachfolgestaaten, Zeitschrift, Perestroika, Politique et gouvernement, Politieke verandering, 1985-1991, Democratisering, Sociale verandering, Politik, Politiek, GOS, Soviet union, politics and government, 1985-1991, Former soviet republics, politics and government
Places: Soviet Union, Former Soviet republics
Time periods: 1985-1991
LC classification: DK288 .W45 1993