Research Catalog

Title

The Soviet Union : party and society / edited by Peter J. Potichnyj.

Author

World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies (3rd : 1985 : Washington, D.C.)

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Potichnyj, Peter J.
• International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies.
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Description

xvii, 253 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This collection is derived from Third World Congress for Soviet and East European studies, and provides an up-to-date survey of contemporary Soviet political and economic problems. It concentrates on Soviet party "apparat", socialization and political discourse, and social policy.

Subject

• Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za > Party work > Congresses
• Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza
• Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza
• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za
• KPSS
• 1953-1985
• Political parties
• Politics and government
• Social policy
• Politik
• Politisches System
• COMMUNIST PARTIES
• SOCIAL POLICY
• USSR
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985 > Congresses
• Soviet Union > Social policy > Congresses
• Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-
• Russia > Social policy

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Selected papers from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, D.C., 30 October-4 November 1985, sponsored by International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies and American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies"--P.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Part 1. Party apparat -- The apparatchiki and Soviet political development / Ronald J. Hill -- The primary party organizations of branch ministries / Stephen Fortescue -- Soviet local party organs and the RAPOs / Barbara Ann Chotiner -- Part 2. Socialization and political discourse -- Political socialization in the USSR : April 1979 and after / Stephen White -- Political language and political change in the USSR : notes on the Gorbachev leadership / Michael E. Urban -- Soviet political discourse, narrative program and the Skaz theory / Alexandre Bourmeyster -- The nationality policy of the CPSU and its reflection in Soviet socio-political terminology / Michael Bruchis -- The evolution of the local soviets / Jeffrey W. Hahn -- Part 3. Social policy -- Social deprivation under Soviet full employment / J.L. Porket -- The Soviet social security system : its legal structure and fair hearings process / Bernice Madison -- Abortion in the Soviet Union : why it is so widely practiced / Shalvia Ben-Barak -- Ethnic group divided : social stratification and nationality policy in the Soviet Union / Victor Zaslavsky -- The Party and Russian nationalism in the USSR : from Brezhnev to Gorbachev / Peter J.S. Duncan.

ISBN

• 0521344603
• 9780521344609
• 052134459X
• 9780521344593

LCCN

87016733

OCLC

• ocm16352813
• 16352813
• SCSB-1703755

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library