The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: 94 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 94) - Softcover

Gill, Graeme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521469430 ISBN 13: 9780521469432

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this 1994 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. Based principally on the contemporary Soviet press, the book to follows the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them. It is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure. When it came under challenge and it could no longer use the weapon of suppression, the party was unable to mount a serious defence of its position and role. Confronted from the top by Gorbachev's call to reform itself and by his changes to the political arena, and from the bottom by new political forces taking advantage of that arena, the party's unity collapsed and with it any sense of purpose or possibility of survival.

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Review

' ... Gill's analysis of the party's fate as an institution is rich in detail and insight, and merits the attention of anyone interested in the end of the Soviet System.' International Affairs

Book Description

Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. This is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure, first published in 1994.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521469430
• ISBN 13: 9780521469432
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272