Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics

Graeme Gill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 351 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783030083359 (ISBN)

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This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The strategies used by the most prominent leader in each period - Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev - to acquire and retain power are counterposed to the strategies used by the other oligarchs to protect themselves and sustain their positions. This is analyzed against the backdrop of the emergence of norms designed to structure oligarch politics. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of political leadership, Soviet politics and Soviet history.

Graeme Gill is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. The author or editor of more than twenty books, as well as Soviet and Russian politics and history, he has published on the role of class in political development, the state and democratization.

Chapter One. Introduction. The Study of Soviet Leadership.- Chapter Two. Oligarchy with a Predominant Leader, 1917-22.- Chapter Three. Rule by Pure Oligarchy, 1923-29.- Chapter Four. From the Predominant to the Dominant Leader, 1930-53.- Chapter Five. The Limits of the Predominant Leader, 1953-64.- Chapter Six. Predominant Leader within the Collective, 1964-82.- Chapter Seven. Collectivism Collapses, 1982-91.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
Zusatzinfo	X, 351 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	authoritarian regimes • Brezhnev and collective leadership • collective leadership • collective rule • Forms of Government • forms of political leadership • Gorbachev and collective leadership • individual leadership • Khrushchev and collective leadership • Lenin and collective leadership • oligarch politics • Russian and Post-Soviet Politics • Soviet history • Soviet leadership • Soviet political history • Soviet politics • Soviet Union leaders • Stalin and collective leadership
ISBN-13	9783030083359 / 9783030083359
Zustand	Neuware