Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics

• Main Author: Gill, Graeme (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
• Subjects: Political leadership.; Russia-Politics and government.; World politics.; Political Leadership.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.; Political History.

This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts how this played out over the life of the regime. The st...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One. Introduction. The Study of Soviet Leadership
• Chapter Two. Oligarchy with a Predominant Leader, 1917-22
• Chapter Three. Rule by Pure Oligarchy, 1923-29
• Chapter Four. From the Predominant to the Dominant Leader, 1930-53
• Chapter Five. The Limits of the Predominant Leader, 1953-64
• Chapter Six. Predominant Leader within the Collective, 1964-82
• Chapter Seven. Collectivism Collapses, 1982-91
• Conclusion.