Subverting the System - Gorbachev''s Reform of the Party''s Apparat, 19861991

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Harris is professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Klappentext Subverting the System deals with an issue of fundamental importance, namely the internal evolution of the regime in the final years of Soviet power. In particular the book examines the contradictory approaches taken by Gorbachev in relation to the role and organization of the Communist Party, contradictions that effectively paralyzed the party as a functioning political organization and that ultimately provoked a dynamic that led to the fall of the system in its entirety. Zusammenfassung Deals with the internal evolution of the regime in the final years of Soviet power. This book examines the contradictory approaches! taken by Gorbachev in relation to the role and organization of the Communist Party! which paralyzed the party as a functioning political organization and provoked a dynamic that led to the fall of the system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Gorbachev's Campaign for "Political Work" Forward and Back, 1986-1987 Chapter 3 The 19th Conference of the CPSU and the Reform of the Party's Apparat, 1988 Chapter 4 The Impact of the Congress of Peoples Deputies: 1989 Chapter 5 Gorbachev's Growing Revisionism, 1989-1990 Chapter 6 Towards the 28th Congress of the CPSU, 1990 Chapter 7 The Revival of the Secretariat, 1990-1991 Chapter 8 From Orthodoxy to Reform, January-August 1991 Chapter 9 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Harris, Jonathan (University of Keele) Harris
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2005
• EAN: 9780742526792
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2679-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political parties and party platforms, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet