The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era

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Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird
Transaction Publishers - 942 pages
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The Household Sector The View from the Bottom
529
Social Stratification and Class
563
Emergent Nationality Problems in the USSR
607
Information White Tass and Letters to the Editor
633
The Effectiveness of Political Propaganda in the USSR
663
Society under Strain
691
Dissent and Political Change in the Soviet Union
717
The Soviet Political System
753

On the Adaptability of Soviet WelfareState Authoritarianism
219
The New Soviet Constitution of 1977
247
USSR The Corrupt Society
293
The Powers of the Soviet KGB
311
Rethinking the Organizational Weapon The Soviet System in a Systems Age
331
War Militarism and the Soviet State
359
The Impact of the Military on Soviet Society
393
Central Intelligence Agency Briefing on the Soviet Economy
417
The Soviet Economy Problems and Prospects
447
Planning and Management
467
Lessons of the Brezhnev Policies on Land and Water and the Future of Reform
511
The PerilPoints
771
On Established Communist Party Regimes
785
The Soviet Union as an Advanced Society
809
The Competition between Soviet Conservatives and Modernizers Domestic and International Aspects
825
The Harsh Decade Soviet Policies in the 1980s
841
Soviet Succession Issues and Personalities
861
A Different Crisis
895
Muddling Through
903
Choice and Change in Soviet Politics
915
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Page 564 - When in the course of development class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, then public power will lose its political character.
Page 365 - 1931, Stalin, now the dominant leader who had set his own brutal stamp on the industrialization drive, justified the intensity of the policy by referring to the need to overcome Russia's backwardness and thus prevent other powers from beating her. Do you want our Socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence?
Page 568 - The consequence of wage equalization is that the unskilled worker lacks the incentive to become a skilled worker and is thus deprived of the prospect of advancement; as a result he feels himself a "visitor" in the factory, working only temporarily so as to "earn a little" and then go off to "seek his fortune
Page 568 - order to put an end to this evil we must draw up wage scales that will take into account the difference between skilled and unskilled labor, between heavy and light work. We cannot tolerate a situation where a rolling-mill hand in a steel mill earns no more than a sweeper.
Page 149 - the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, responsible for relations between the CPSU and other communist parties in power; and the Department for Cadres Abroad, which supervises foreign travel by Soviet citizens. Housekeeping operations for the CPSU are managed by the Administration of Affairs Department, which, among
Page 140 - He then developed the vision of "a single state bank, the biggest of the big, with branches in every rural district, every factory," accounting for "as much as nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus" and constituting, so to speak, the "skeleton of socialist society."
Page 35 - right not to know." As a rule, they cut the quotation short, omitting: "not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk." My answer is already expressed in that omitted passage. They pointed out reproachfully that this is the same Solzhenitsyn who, when in the USSR, struggled for the right to
Page 584 - Well-to-do peasants: consisting of those particularly advantaged by virtue of the location, fertility, or crop raised by their collective farms (ie, those living on the so-called "millionaire" farms) and those whose trade, skill, or productivity pushes them into the higher income brackets even on the less prosperous farms. 2.

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