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Soviet Power and the Countryside

Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Neil J. Melvin

    1. Institute of Political and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Political Change in the Soviet Union

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Neil J. Melvin
      Pages 3-10

  3. Agenda Setting in Soviet Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. The Establishment of Official Rural Policy

      • Neil J. Melvin
      Pages 29-52

    3. Radical Urbanism Becomes Orthodoxy

      • Neil J. Melvin
      Pages 53-72

    4. The Onset of Rural Transformation

      • Neil J. Melvin
      Pages 73-90

  4. Policy Actors, Institutions and Ideas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    4. The Disintegration of Policy-making Capacity

      • Neil J. Melvin
      Pages 150-175

  5. Power in Soviet Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 198-279
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About this book

Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Political and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK

    Neil J. Melvin

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About the author

NEIL J. MELVIN is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Political and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Russians Beyond Russia, Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road and co-editor of Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union.
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