How The Soviet Union Is Governed
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible on title page. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
How the Soviet Union Is Governed is a landmark work of political science that presents a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the Soviet political system. An extensively revised and enlarged edition of Merle Fainsod's classic How Russia Is Ruled, Jerry F. Hough modernises and expands the original framework to account for the significant transformations within the USSR from Stalin's era through the Brezhnev period. The book details the inner workings of Soviet institutions — from the Communist Party apparatus and government bureaucracy to the military and economic planning bodies — with meticulous scholarly rigour. Hough argues that the Soviet system, far from being a monolithic totalitarian state, was shaped by competing institutional interests and a complex bureaucratic politics. This definitive academic text remains an indispensable reference for students and scholars of Soviet politics, Cold War history, and comparative government.
Author: Jerry F. Hough And Merle Fainsod
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Harvard University Press
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible on title page. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
How the Soviet Union Is Governed is a landmark work of political science that presents a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the Soviet political system. An extensively revised and enlarged edition of Merle Fainsod's classic How Russia Is Ruled, Jerry F. Hough modernises and expands the original framework to account for the significant transformations within the USSR from Stalin's era through the Brezhnev period. The book details the inner workings of Soviet institutions — from the Communist Party apparatus and government bureaucracy to the military and economic planning bodies — with meticulous scholarly rigour. Hough argues that the Soviet system, far from being a monolithic totalitarian state, was shaped by competing institutional interests and a complex bureaucratic politics. This definitive academic text remains an indispensable reference for students and scholars of Soviet politics, Cold War history, and comparative government.