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Red Sunset : The Failure of Soviet Politics / Philip G. Roeder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 18 line illusContent type:
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  • 9781400843817
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.9/2/0947 20
LOC classification:
  • JN6511
  • JN6511
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Why Did Soviet Bolshevism Fail? -- CHAPTER TWO The Authoritarian Constitution -- CHAPTER THREE Creating the Constitution of Bolshevism, 1917-1953 -- CHAPTER FOUR Reciprocal Accountability, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER FIVE Balanced Leadership, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER SIX Institutionalized Stagnation -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Domestic Policy Spiral -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Dialectics of Military Planning -- CHAPTER NINE The Failure of Constitutional Reform,1987-1991 -- CHAPTER TEN Can Authoritarian Institutions Survive? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited.In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Why Did Soviet Bolshevism Fail? -- CHAPTER TWO The Authoritarian Constitution -- CHAPTER THREE Creating the Constitution of Bolshevism, 1917-1953 -- CHAPTER FOUR Reciprocal Accountability, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER FIVE Balanced Leadership, 1953-1986 -- CHAPTER SIX Institutionalized Stagnation -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Domestic Policy Spiral -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Dialectics of Military Planning -- CHAPTER NINE The Failure of Constitutional Reform,1987-1991 -- CHAPTER TEN Can Authoritarian Institutions Survive? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited.In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.

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