Soviet Politics in Transition Book

Ch. 1	The Emergence of the Soviet State	1
	The Principles of Soviet State Formation	4
	The Old Order	5
	The Revolutionary Movement	8
	The Revolution and Its Dilemmas	14
	The Rise and Fall of Stalinism	21
Ch. 2	Attempts at De-Stalinization: From Stalin to Gorbachev	33
	The Legacy of Stalinism	33
	The Krushchev Period (1956-1964): The Beginnings of De-Stalinization	35
	The Brezhnev Era (1965-1982): The Period of Bureaucratic Conservatism	37
Ch. 3	Gorbachev and Perestroika: From Glasnost to Crisis	55
	Gorbachev and Political Leadership	57
	The Gorbachev Era: A Periodization	63
	The Contested Principles of Reform	82
Ch. 4	Political Institutions	97
	The State: Administrative and Soviet Structures	97
	Toward a Multiparty System?	117
Ch. 5	Crisis of The System: Social and Economic Problems	137
	Economic Reform and the Economic Crisis	138
	The Crisis of Nationalities	153
	The Work Force and Worker Discontent	170
	Will the USSR Survive?	176
	Bibliography	180
	Index	183