Soviet Power and the Countryside : Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay (St. Antony's Series)

Melvin, Neil J.

Palgrave Macmillan（2004/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 279 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333692523
• DDC分類 307.72094709045

基本説明

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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration and Terms List of Abbreviations Glossary of Terms PART I: THE SETTING Introduction Political Change in the Soviet Union PART II: AGENDA SETTING IN SOVIET POLITICS The Establishment of Official Rural Policy Radical Urbanism Becomes Orthodoxy The Onset of Rural Transformation PART III: POLICY ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS The Formation of the Policy Community: Rural Architects The Expansion of Participation: Geographers, Sociologists and Writers The Disintegration of Policy Making Capacity PART IV: POWER IN SOVIET POLITICS Power and Decay in the Soviet State Sources Consulted