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Table des matières
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Soviet Insiders How Power Flows in Moscow | 167 |
Brezhnev and the Communist Party | 193 |
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 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
activities administrative agriculture Andropov apparatus basic Bolsheviks Brezhnev bureaucracy Central Committee central planning citizens collective farm communism Communist party conservatism Constitution CPSU cultural de-Stalinization decision defense discussion dissent dissident DOSAAF economic effective elite enterprises example factors forces foreign policy Gosplan groups growth ideological important income increase industrial institutions intelligentsia interests issues Khrushchev Komsomol labor Lenin Leonid Brezhnev major ment ministries Moscow nomenklatura obkom officials organizational output party organization party's peasants Politburo population position Pravda problems production reform regime republics responsibility revolution role RSFSR rubles rule Russian samizdat scientific Secretariat secretary sector social socialist Soviet economy Soviet leaders Soviet leadership Soviet military Soviet political system Soviet society Soviet system Soviet Union Stalin Stalinist structure Supreme Soviet tion USSR wage West Western workers
Fréquemment cités
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.
