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This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.

This book draws on public opinion surveys conducted in Poland during the Solidarity era to examine popular attitudes on fundamental issues of political power and on the dramatic political events of 1980-1982.

This 1977 book was undertaken with the purpose of determining the degree of Soviet involvement in the Middle East crisis. Dr Golan examines in minute detail the Soviet interests in the region and the relationship that Soviets had with the Arab states and the Palestinians.

This book first published in 1978 provides a broad and comprehensive view of the Soviet book publishing industry based on extensive use of Soviet sources and on visits and interviews conducted in the Soviet Union.

Felicity O'Dell analyses the moral content of stories read by Russian primary school children and asks what values are taught and how they reflect ideology. She also questions how successfully the educational process instils the values of Soviet socialism and documents how children's literature mirrors the development of Russian society.

When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective machinery and methods of operation, and to use it to govern the country.

First published in 1980, this book offers an account of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), the regional institution overseeing East European economic integration at the time.

This book is about the political, social and economic changes in Czechoslovakia in the years 1945-1948. In 1945 the 'national revolution' established the Communist Party as the dominant force within a coalition government. The leading Communists then evolved the idea of a specific, Czechoslovak road to socialism that could by-pass the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.

This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet trade union organisations. It examines union activities both at the national level and on the shop floor. The main focus is on the development and workings of the Soviet trade unions, but their history throughout the Soviet period is also covered.

In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers' Party. She argues that political constraints on the available options for economic reform have encouraged a policy of merger of industrial enterprises into large `corporate' units since 1958.

This book first published in 1982 considers the problems of efficiently managing large enterprises which are common to both the West and to the Soviet Union. The growth in management science in the West has been paralleled in the Soviet Union in the years since Khrushchev's fall.

This 1983 book presents a comprehensive account of the cycle of fixed capital investment in the Soviet Union, from strategic decision-taking in the Kremlin down to the level of individual building sites.

The emergence of the military agency of the Soviet state is a crucial but neglected aspect of inter-war Soviet history, and in this pioneering study Francesco Benvenuti provides a detailed analysis of the politics (as opposed to the operational activities) of the Red Army during the Civil War.

This book describes the rise of national identity among the Azerbaijanis - the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Russia's borderland with Iran - during the period from the Russian Revolution of 1905, when the Azerbaijanis began to articulate their national aspirations, until the establishment of the Soviet Azerbaijani Republic in 1920.

This book examines the origins, development and reasons for change of the first Soviet economic system, and the reasons for changing it. Programmes are compared with outcomes and theory with practice in the fields of nationalization, workers' control and management, money and planning, industrial organization and food procurement.

This book is about the impact of World War II on the Soviet system of economic planning. It assesses the prewar Soviet economic system, how the economy measured up to wartime requirements, and the lessons laid down for the postwar Soviet approach to both peaceful and warlike tasks.

This book discusses the major proposals to reform the price system in the CMEA economy and what role the price system plays. It shows how debates on that matter have naturally led into debates on reforming all intra-CMEA economic institutions.

This study traces the evolution of Soviet-Western relations from the Revolution up to the autumn of 1921, when the proposal for a conference first began to emerge, and then discusses the course of preconference diplomacy and the proceedings of the conference itself, up to the early summer of 1922.

This book examines what observers of foreign policy within the Soviet Union have been saying to each other over the last twenty years. The author shows how phenomena such as nuclear warfare, western prosperity, and the Sino-Soviet split have enforced analysts to diverge from Leninist orthodoxy, giving a surprisingly complex and sophisticated analysis of world politics.

A revisionist account, questioning Britain's determination to defend Poland and oppose German expansion eastwards.

This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union. Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry.

Dr Myant presents a detailed account of the development and performance of the Czech economy over a period of forty years, and reveals the problems and tensions created by the chosen system of centralised planning. Dr Myant's conclusion is that any economic reform will have little substance unless accompanied by appropriate political change.

Professor Berend presents a comprehensive inside account of Hungary's economic reforms since the 1950s. Working from Communist Party archives, which have hitherto partially remained closed to scholars, Berend situates the history of these economic reforms within their political context, looking in particular at the role of the Soviet Union.

This book provides an exceptionally thorough treatment of the Hungarian economy and its experience of economic reform. Within a wider discussion of the appliance and success of Soviet-type economies (STEs), the author investigates the decentralising measures and market mechanisms which have been progressively introduced and considers the limits on and limitations of the Hungarian economic model.

In this book, Iliana Zloch-Christy analyses the problems of Eastern Europe's convertible currency external debt situation and its impact on the financing of East-West trade in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Professor Stent examines the development of Soviet-West German relations from both the Russian and German sides using extensive Soviet and West German sources. She has used a wide variety of materials including documents from the Kennedy administration and interviews with German government officials and business leaders.

During the 1970s over a quarter of a million Jews left the Soviet Union. In this important 1991 study of Soviet Jewry, Yaacov Ro'i examines the cultural, social, political and international context of the movement for emigration, from the establishment of the state of Israel to the outbreak of the Six Day War.

A comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Gorbachev's reforms. Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact, requiring a thorough restructuring of the labour process within Soviet industry.