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The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

By Graeme Gill

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0521465370, 9780521465373
LCC
JN6598.K7 G5235 1995
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7766988 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Pages
270\264
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. The first book to follow the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them, this study is also an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure, showing how Gorbachev's reforms and the new political forces that grew up in their wake created disunity and fragmentation that ultimately led to the collapse of the most powerful single-party state in history.

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