This book examines what came to determine the local power and character of the Communist party-state at the level of the national non-Russian republics. It disc

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts

CONTENTS The Development of Capitalism in Russia The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists The Differentiation of the Peasantry The Landowners' Transi

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet