The Dynamics of Soviet Politics

Abstract

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