New and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from 1917 to 1941.

This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from ...

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritar...

Preface - Glossary - Introduction - Key - THE RULES - Decisions of the Congress. Adopted at the I...

This edited volume seeks to understand and explain the pattern of varying national and regional s...

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet r...

This book traces the politics of transition in the late 1980s and early 1990s from its origins to...

The fall of the Communist regime in the USSR and Russia's search for a democratic and prosperous ...

Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to Dec...

Drawing on research based on access to the recently-opened Soviet archives, this new edition prov...

Analyses changes in Soviet political symbolism to explain a key dynamic behind the ultimate colla...

This book, written by three of the West's leading scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, tra...