Abstract
Today, the political landscape in every former union republic is marked by the existence of different political parties. In Russia, and in the majority (but not all) of the republics, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) seems to be defeated; its central organs (the Politburo and the Central Committee) have been dissolved. However, the members of the nomenklatura still maintain a grip over many parts of the former Soviet Union, albeit under different guises.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Seweryn Bialer, “The Changing Soviet political System: The Nineteenth Party Conference and After,” in Seweryn Bialer, ed., Politics, Society and Nationality Inside Gorbachev’s Russia, (Boulder, 1989), p. 193.
John Gooding, “Gorbachev and Democracy,” Soviet Studies 42, no. 2 (April 1990), pp. 195–231.
M. S. Gorbachev, Izbrannye Rechi i Stat’i 4 (Moscow, 1988), pp. 49–50.
Stephen F. Cohen and Katerina van den Huevel, Voices of Glasnost’: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 39.
Pamyat’: Istoricheski Sbornik 4 (Moscow, 1979-Paris, 1981), pp. 128–29; N. Okhotin and A. Roginsky, eds., Zven’ya, (Moscow: Progress, Feniks, Atheneum, 1991), p. 166.
See Vera Tolz, The USSR’s Emerging Multiparty System (New York and London: Praeger Publishers, 1990), pp. 16–17.
Editor information
Copyright information
© 1992 Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology & Policy
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Tolz, V. (1992). Toward a Multiparty System?. In: Ra’anan, U., Armes, K., Martin, K. (eds) Russian Pluralism—Now Irreversible?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11917-9_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11917-9_2
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-60663-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-11917-9
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)