Party Worker - The Rise of a Soviet Regional Leader

This book is about the late Soviet Union, focusing on the crisis in the ruling structures of the Communist Party, caused by the lack of generational rejuvenation. Author analyzes the case of Volgograd as a typical manifestation of this crisis and explains why Perestroika did not work.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Perestroika is the revolution of quadragenerians or 'mutiny of the Second Secretaries'
Chapter 2: 'The Volgograd Revolution' of 1990
Chapter 3: The end of Perestroika
Chapter 4: Letters from the Past. Moscow - Berlin
Chapter 5: "None of this belongs to us. Just nothing!"
References
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Mikhail Anipkin

Product details

• Authors: Mikhail Anipkin
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2024
• EAN: 9780761874720
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-7472-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Politics & government, Political leaders & leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era