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  3. The Collapse of a Single-Party System
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2010
Print publication year:
1994
Online ISBN:
9780511559235
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511559235
Subjects:
Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
Series:
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (94)
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Book description

In this 1994 book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. Based principally on the contemporary Soviet press, the book to follows the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them. It is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure. When it came under challenge and it could no longer use the weapon of suppression, the party was unable to mount a serious defence of its position and role. Confronted from the top by Gorbachev's call to reform itself and by his changes to the political arena, and from the bottom by new political forces taking advantage of that arena, the party's unity collapsed and with it any sense of purpose or possibility of survival.

Reviews

‘ … Gill’s analysis of the party’s fate as an institution is rich in detail and insight, and merits the attention of anyone interested in the end of the Soviet System.’

Source: International Affairs

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