Bøger af Graeme (University of Sydney) Gill

Shows why post-Soviet Russia followed an authoritarian political trajectory rather than the democratic one widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. Graeme Gill also introduces a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system.

Regime change in Russia has not been accompanied by a coherent new system of political symbolism. Following the fall of the Soviet regime, no single symbolic programme has emerged to replace the Soviet version. Gill investigates why and examines the symbolism that in fact emerged.

This book analyses the way in which symbolism and ritual changed through Soviet history. By focusing on the symbolism in party policy, artwork and political posters, and urban redevelopment and political ritual, it lays bare the dynamics of the Soviet regime and a major reason for its fall.

Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. This is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure, first published in 1994.