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I. Problems And Perspectives
1. Do We Know All There Is to Know about the USSR?
Adam B. Ulam
II. Political Leadership and Power
2. Political Leadership in Soviet Historiography: Cult or Collective?
Nancy Whittier Heer
3. Permitted Dissent in the Decade after Stalin: Criticism and Protest in Novy mir, 1955-1964
Dina Spechler
4. Toward a Theory of Soviet Leadership Maintenance
Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone
5. Office Holding and Elite Status: The Central Committee of the CPSU
Robert V. Daniels
6. The Problem of Succession
John H. Hodgson
7. Party "Saturation" in the Soviet Union
Jerry F. Hough
III. The Policy Process: Administration and Control
8. The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Soviet Administrative Debate
Robert F. Miller
9. The Policy Process and Bureaucratic Politics
Paul Cocks
10. The Virgin Lands since Khrushchev: Choices and Decisions in Soviet Policy Making
Richard M. Mills
IV. Political Development and Social Change
11. Socialism and Modernity: Education, Industrialization, and Social Change in the USSR
Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
12. Values and Aspirations of Soviet Youth
Ruth W. Mouly
13. Modernization, Generations, and the Uzbek Soviet Intelligensia
Donald S. Carlisle
14. Modernization and National Policy in Soviet Central Asia: Problems and Prospects
Gregory J. Massell
V. Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy
15. Peaceful Coexistence: From Heresy to Orthodoxy
Paul Marantz
16. Global Power Relationships in the Seventies: The View from the Kremlin
Robert H. Donaldson
VI. Some Reflections
17. Soviet Politics: From the Future to the Past?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Notes
Contributors
Index
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Lawrence Leppert
reviewed The Dynamics of Soviet politics on March 30, 2016
The Dynamics of Soviet politics
This is one of the clearest, most eloquently written theoretical pieces on power I have read. Most books on power provide an exhausting amount of detail, most of which is background and critique. I understand why they do it, but it is not at all practical to read and apply such books in research like mine, which involves looking at over a dozen dimensions of institutionalised environments. This book contains some critique and background, but it really hones in on the important details and clearly outlines a "radical" theory of power. The view of power is not really that radical...perhaps it was more radical when this book was first published in 1974; in which case it is a testament to the theory that it seems completely reasonable to me today. Even though this book is short, it manages to address several pragmatic empirical issues that will arise in applying the author's favoured, 3-dimensional view of power in research. He doesn't solve them entirely, but his effort provides a useful foundation and illustrates the feasibility of the theory.
The book also doesn't rely on Foucault or Marx, which is an impressive and endearing attribute in the sea of literature that relies on one or both. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a primer and eloquent conceptual model of power, particularly if you find your eyes glaze over when you read the more lengthy tomes on the topic.
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