RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. PART ONE. Problems and Perspectives
4. 1. Do We Know All There Is to Know about the USSR? 3
5. PART TWO. Political Leadership and Power
6. 2. Political Leadership in Soviet Historiography: Cult or Collective? 11
7. 3. Permitted Dissent in the Decade after Stalin: Criticism and Protest in Novy mir, 1953-1964 28
8. 4. Toward a Theory of Soviet Leadership Maintenance 51
9. 5. Office Holding and Elite Status: The Central Committee of the CPSU 77
10. 6. The Problem of Succession 96
11. 7. Party "Saturation" in the Soviet Union 117
12. PART THREE. The Policy Process: Administration and Control
13. 8. The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Soviet Administrative Debate 137
14. 9. The Policy Process and Bureaucratic Politics 156
15. 10. The Virgin Lands since Khrushchev: Choices and Decisions in Soviet Policy Making 179
16. PART FOUR. Political Development and Social Change
17. 11. Socialism and Modernity: Education, Industrialization, and Social Change in the USSR 195
18. 12. Values and Aspirations of Soviet Youth 221
19. Modernization, Generations, and the Uzbek Soviet Intelligentsia 239
20. 14. Modernization and National Policy in Soviet Central Asia: Problems and Prospects 265
21. PART FIVE. Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy
22. 15. Peaceful Coexistence: From Heresy to Orthodoxy 293
23. 16. Global Power Relationships in the Seventies: The View from the Kremlin 309
24. PART SIX. Some Reflections
25. 17. Soviet Politics: From the Future to the Past? 337
26. Notes 355
27. Contributors 417
28. Index 419
29. RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES 428