Soviet Power and the Countryside: Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

by Neil Melvin

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134940151X
• ISBN13: 9781349401512
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"