The Collapse of a Single-Party System

The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Paperback | 12 December 1994

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In this book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. Based principally on the contemporary Soviet press, this is the first book to follow the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them. It is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure. When it came under challenge and it could no longer use the weapon of suppression, the party was unable to mount a serious defence of its position and role. Confronted from the top by Gorbachev's call to reform itself and by his changes to the political arena, and from the bottom by new political forces taking advantage of that arena, the party's unity collapsed and with it any sense of purpose or possibility of survival.

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' ... Gill's analysis of the party's fate as an institution is rich in detail and insight, and merits the attention of anyone interested in the end of the Soviet System.' International Affairs

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Parties History Regional & National History European History Political Structure & Processes Central Government

The administrative party system
The personnel solution
The move to institutional reform
The programme for change
Reform out of control
The lead-up to the congress
The party imploding
The end
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The Collapse of a Single-Party System

The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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