Power in the Party

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. What Sort of Organisation was the Communist Party?

   • Graeme Gill, Roderic Pitty

   Pages 1-22

3. Campaigning for Reform

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   Pages 23-44

4. Variants of Republican Autonomy

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   Pages 45-71

5. Radicalism During the 1980s

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   Pages 72-100

6. Why this Pattern?

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   Pages 101-148

7. The Pattern of Power

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   Pages 149-173

8. Conclusion: The Weakness of Infrastructural Power

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   Pages 174-183

9. Back Matter

   Pages 184-222

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This book examines the course of official criticism of republican leaderships in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Stalin's death until the collapse of central control in the late 1980s. It focuses upon five republics, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belorussia. The extraordinary power of the central leadership to replace particular republican leaders is contrasted with the continuing dominance of elite politics in these republics by local cliques with substantial and increasing autonomy from Moscow.

• autonomy
• campaign
• Campaigning
• communism
• criticism
• death
• organization
• organizations
• politics
• reform
• Union
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• russian and post-soviet politics

• Department of Government, University of Sydney, Australia

  Graeme Gill, Roderic Pitty

GRAEME GILL
RODERIC PITTY

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