Soviet Constitutional Crisis

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev era, the author traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the former USSR.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Brezhnev and the Soviet Constitution of 1977; Chapter 2 The Andropov–Chernenko Interregnum; Chapter 3 Gorbachev and the Soviet Constitutional Crisis;

About the author

Robert Sharlet

Summary

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev era, the author traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the former USSR.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Sharlet, Sharlet Robert
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.1992
• EAN: 9781563240638
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-063-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Constitution: government & the state, Central / national / federal government, Political ideologies and movements, Central government, Constitution: government and the state, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet