Soviet Power and the Countryside

Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

N. Melvin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

279 Seiten

2003 | 1st ed. 2003
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-40151-2 (ISBN)

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Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.

NEIL J. MELVIN is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Political and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Russians Beyond Russia, Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road and co-editor of Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union.

List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration and Terms List of Abbreviations Glossary of Terms PART I: THE SETTING Introduction Political Change in the Soviet Union PART II: AGENDA SETTING IN SOVIET POLITICS The Establishment of Official Rural Policy Radical Urbanism Becomes Orthodoxy The Onset of Rural Transformation PART III: POLICY ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS The Formation of the Policy Community: Rural Architects The Expansion of Participation: Geographers, Sociologists and Writers The Disintegration of Policy Making Capacity PART IV: POWER IN SOVIET POLITICS Power and Decay in the Soviet State Sources Consulted

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	St Antony's Series
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 279 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	133 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-349-40151-X / 134940151X
ISBN-13	978-1-349-40151-2 / 9781349401512
Zustand	Neuware