Introduction The Model of Revolution from Above The Breakdown of Institutional and Political Unity The Organization of Political Groups in the Party-State and Society Dual Sovereignty from Above and the XXVIIII CPSU Congress The First Soviet Pact-Making Episode Gorbachev’s Turn to the Right Reaction Polarization and Revolutionary Crisis Politics The Nascent Soviet Transition Pact The Hardline August Coup The Revolutionary Seizure of Power and the Aborted Soviet Pact Tentative Conclusions About Russia and the Revolution from Above
-[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the
Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among
the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival
materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best
account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's
disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries,
upper-division undergraduates and above.- --P. Rutland, Choice
-Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite
information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a
significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While
readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented
with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating
ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings
in the post-Soviet era.- --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona
-This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and
scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika
period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding
general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist
Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking
analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews.-
--The Russian Review -This is an important book with a number of
substantive strengths.- --Slavic Review
"[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the
Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among
the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival
materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best
account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's
disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries,
upper-division undergraduates and above." --P. Rutland, Choice
"Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite
information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a
significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While
readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented
with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating
ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings
in the post-Soviet era." --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona
"This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and
scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika
period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding
general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist
Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking
analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews."
--The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of
substantive strengths." --Slavic Review
"[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the
Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among
the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival
materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best
account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's
disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries,
upper-division undergraduates and above." --P. Rutland, Choice
"Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite
information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a
significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While
readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented
with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating
ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings
in the post-Soviet era." --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona
"This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and
scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika
period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding
general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist
Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking
analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews."
--The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of
substantive strengths." --Slavic Review
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