Interest Groups in Soviet Politics

✍ Scribed by Harold Gordon Skilling (editor); Franklyn Griffiths (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 445
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 5508
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is now generally agreed that since Stalin's death there has been a definite broadening of group participation in policy formation and implementation. The contributors to this volume analyze seven elite political interest groups at the upper and middle levels of the Soviet social structure.

Originally published in 1971.

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✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I: Interest Groups and Communist Politics: An Introduction
CHAPTER II: Groups in Soviet Politics: Some Hypotheses
CHAPTER III: The Party Apparatchiki
CHAPTER IV: The Security Police
CHAPTER V: The Military
CHAPTER VI: The Industrial Managers
CHAPTER VII: The Economists
CHAPTER VIII: The Writers
CHAPTER IX: The Jurists
CHAPTER X: A Tendency Analysis of Soviet Policy-Making
CHAPTER XI: Group Conflict in Soviet Politics: Some Conclusions
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX