Soviet Power and the Countryside

Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

von N. Melvin

279 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.

• Reihe: St Antony's Series
• ISBN: 9781349401512
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2003
• Genre: Politikwissenschaft/Politisches System
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK