Executive Power and Soviet Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Soviet StateEugene Huskey Ever since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive prerogative are unresolved. This volume, brings together original studies of the Soviet executive under Gorbachev by specialists including Barbara Chotiner, Stephen Fortescue, Brnda Horrigan, Ellen Jones, Wayne Limberg, T.H. Rigby and Louise Shelley. Among the topics covered are the major economic, national security and law enforcement ministries, the presidency, the cabinet and questions of presidential-ministerial, presidential-presidential, legislative-executive and party-state relations. |
Contents
The Government in the Soviet Political System | 3 |
PartyState Relations | 49 |
ExecutiveLegislative Relations | 83 |
The Rise of Presidential Power under Gorbachev | 106 |
The Ministry of Finance | 129 |
The Industrial Ministries | 143 |
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