Red sunset : the failure of Soviet politics / / Philip G. Roeder

• Autore: Roeder Philip G
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1993; ©1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 317 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 321.920947
• Soggetto topico: Authoritarianism - Soviet Union; Constitutional history - Soviet Union; HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Politics and government
• Soggetto non controllato: Administrative Organs Department; Bunce, Valerie; Cabinet of Ministers; Central Asian republics; Central Control Commission; Council of the Federation; Hosking, Geoffrey; Jones, Ellen; Kommunist; Komsomol; Ministry of State Farms; Organization Party Work Department; Orgburo; Politburo; Procuracy; Rush, Myron; Savinkin, Nikolai I.; Socialist Revolutionary party; United Opposition; Willerton, John P.; Zemtsov, Ilya; Zimyatin, Leonid; accountability; armed forces; balancing; clientelism; constitution; democratic centralism; disqualification of leaders; economic priorities; forced departicipation; generalist and specialist roles; great man theories; institutionalization; integrated electoral machine; learning theory; logrolling; loose coupling; military thought; normal politics; partisan analysis; political interests model; power and authority; regimes; revenue-seeking state; selectoral motivation; selectorate; sovnarkhozy; stagnation; unenfranchised participants; vice-president of the USSR
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-310) and index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-310) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Why Did Soviet Bolshevism Fail? -- CHAPTER TWO The Authoritarian Constitution -- CHAPTER THREE Creating the Constitution of Bolshevism, 1917-1953 -- CHAPTER FOUR Reciprocal Accountability, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER FIVE Balanced Leadership, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER SIX Institutionalized Stagnation -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Domestic Policy Spiral -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Dialectics of Military Planning -- CHAPTER NINE The Failure of Constitutional Reform,1987-1991 -- CHAPTER TEN Can Authoritarian Institutions Survive? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Red sunset
• ISBN: 1-4008-4381-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248121803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.