LEADER 05877oam 22012854a 450 001 996248121803316 005 20221108084225.0 010 $a1-4008-4381-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400843817 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000169 035 $a(dli)HEB05454 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11271566 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357684 035 $a(PQKB)11486624 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6550156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6550156 035 $a(OCoLC)1246579709 035 $a(OCoLC)1273306052 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83506 035 $a(DE-B1597)581264 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843817 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000006856274 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000169 100 $a20210309d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRed sunset $ethe failure of Soviet politics /$fPhilip G. Roeder 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J.$cPrinceton University Press$d1993 210 4$d©1993 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 317 p.)$cill 225 0 $aACLS Humanities E-Book 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-310) and index. 311 $a0-691-01942-8 311 $a0-691-03306-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tTables -- $tPreface -- $tCHAPTER ONE Why Did Soviet Bolshevism Fail? -- $tCHAPTER TWO The Authoritarian Constitution -- $tCHAPTER THREE Creating the Constitution of Bolshevism, 1917-1953 -- $tCHAPTER FOUR Reciprocal Accountability, 1953-1986 -- $tCHAPTER FIVE Balanced Leadership, 1953-1986 -- $tCHAPTER SIX Institutionalized Stagnation -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN The Domestic Policy Spiral -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT The Dialectics of Military Planning -- $tCHAPTER NINE The Failure of Constitutional Reform,1987-1991 -- $tCHAPTER TEN Can Authoritarian Institutions Survive? -- $tNotes -- $tSelect Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited.In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aAuthoritarianism$zSoviet Union 606 $aConstitutional history$zSoviet Union 606 $aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government 610 $aAdministrative Organs Department. 610 $aBunce, Valerie. 610 $aCabinet of Ministers. 610 $aCentral Asian republics. 610 $aCentral Control Commission. 610 $aCouncil of the Federation. 610 $aHosking, Geoffrey. 610 $aJones, Ellen. 610 $aKommunist. 610 $aKomsomol. 610 $aMinistry of State Farms. 610 $aOrganization Party Work Department. 610 $aOrgburo. 610 $aPolitburo. 610 $aProcuracy. 610 $aRush, Myron. 610 $aSavinkin, Nikolai I. 610 $aSocialist Revolutionary party. 610 $aUnited Opposition. 610 $aWillerton, John P. 610 $aZemtsov, Ilya. 610 $aZimyatin, Leonid. 610 $aaccountability. 610 $aarmed forces. 610 $abalancing. 610 $aclientelism. 610 $aconstitution. 610 $ademocratic centralism. 610 $adisqualification of leaders. 610 $aeconomic priorities. 610 $aforced departicipation. 610 $ageneralist and specialist roles. 610 $agreat man theories. 610 $ainstitutionalization. 610 $aintegrated electoral machine. 610 $alearning theory. 610 $alogrolling. 610 $aloose coupling. 610 $amilitary thought. 610 $anormal politics. 610 $apartisan analysis. 610 $apolitical interests model. 610 $apower and authority. 610 $aregimes. 610 $arevenue-seeking state. 610 $aselectoral motivation. 610 $aselectorate. 610 $asovnarkhozy. 610 $astagnation. 610 $aunenfranchised participants. 610 $avice-president of the USSR. 615 0$aAuthoritarianism 615 0$aConstitutional history 615 7$aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. 676 $a321.920947 700 $aRoeder$b Philip G$4aut$0677256 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies$4oth 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248121803316 996 $aRed sunset$91295503 997 $aUNISA