St Antony's Series: Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

Melvin, N.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-11-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349401512

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598522

Dimensions: 203cm x133cm

Pages: 279