Interest groups in Soviet politics

✍ Scribed by H. Gordon Skilling, Franklyn Griffiths

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 446
• 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

Frontmatter
PREFACE (page v)
CHAPTER I: Interest Groups and Communist Politics: An Introduction (H. Gordon Skilling, page 3)
CHAPTER II: Groups in Soviet Politics: Some Hypotheses (H. Gordon Skilling, page 19)
CHAPTER III: The Party Apparatchiki (Jerry F. Hough, page 47)
CHAPTER IV: The Security Police (Frederick C. Barghoorn, page 93)
CHAPTER V: The Military (Roman Kolkowicz, page 131)
CHAPTER VI: The Industrial Managers (John P. Hardt and Theodore Frankel, page 171)
CHAPTER VII: The Economists (Richard W. Judy, page 209)
CHAPTER VIII: The Writers (Ernest J. Simmons, page 253)
CHAPTER IX: The Jurists (Donald D. Barry and Harold J. Berman, page 291)
CHAPTER X: A Tendency Analysis of Soviet Policy-Making (Franklyn Griffiths, page 335)
CHAPTER XI: Group Conflict in Soviet Politics: Some Conclusions (H. Gordon Skilling, page 379)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 417)
INDEX (page 419)