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In our preface to the first edition of this book we explained that this was above all a guide for students, but hoped it might be considered more than 'just' a textbook. As befitted a volume on developments, we made no attempt to cover every aspect of what could still be described as the Soviet political system; our aim, then and now, was to allow ourselves a little more room in which to concentrate upon the more important changes in a rapidly evolving system, and to deal with the (often controversial) issues of interpretation to which they give rise. We also thought it proper, dealing with issues of this kind, to allow for a diversity of approach within a common framework.As we wrote in 1990, our assumptions about Soviet politics were 'changing almost daily'. But not even we could claim to have foretold the changes with which we deal in this second edition, with the end of Communist Party rule and of the USSR itself. This is accordingly a very different book: all of the chapters have been rewritten, most of them are entirely different, and several of the contributors as well as the subjects with which they deal are new to this edition. Our aim, however, remains the same: to offer

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Author

Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi Gitelman (eds.)

Publisher

Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Red Globe Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333577066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences