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Relatively little attention in the West has been paid to the issue of policy innovation in the Soviet Union. Valerie Bunce has sought to explain patterns in innovation by examining the variation in national and republic budgets over time, relating this to changes in leadership at each level.1 Zvi Gitelman has explored the process by which innovations originating in Eastern Europe are adopted (or adapted) by the USSR.2
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Valerie Bunce, Do New Leaders Make a Difference? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979) and ‘Leadership Succession and Policy Innovation in the Soviet Republics’, Comparative Politics, vol. 11, no. 4 (July 1979) pp. 379–401.
Zvi Gitelman, The Diffusion of Political Innovation: From Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1972).
Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd edn (New York: Free Press, 1983);
George W. Downs, Jr. and Lawrence B. Mohr, ‘Conceptual Issues in the Study of Innovation’, Administrative Science Quarterly vol. 21, no. 4 (December 1976) pp. 700–14.
See George W. Downs and Lawrence B. Mohr, ‘Toward a Theory of Innovation’, Administration and Society, vol. 10, no. 4 (February 1979) pp. 379–408.
Tönu Parming, ‘Nationalism in Soviet Estonia Since 1964’, in George W. Simmonds (ed.) Nationalism in the USSR and Eastern Europe (Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1977) pp. 123–4.
V. Stanley Vardys, ‘The Role of the Baltic Republics in Soviet Society’, in Roman Szporluk, (ed.) The Influence of East Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR (New York: Praeger, 1975) p. 158.
For a recent discussion, see Hans-Jürgen Wagener, ‘The Political Economy of Soviet Nationalities and Regions’, in Hans-Hermann Höhmann, Alec Nove, and Heinrich Vogel, (eds.) Economics and Politics in the USSR (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1986) pp. 146–71.
Heinrich Vogel, ‘Regional Differences in Living Standards: Efficiency of the Distribution Network’, in Regional Development in the USSR. Trends and Prospects (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1979) pp. 59–74.
For a discussion of these differences, see Gertrude Schroeder Greenslade, ‘Regional Dimensions of the “Second Economy” in the USSR’, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Occasional Paper, no. 115 (Washington 1980).
Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman, ‘The Cultural Bases of Soviet Georgia’s Second Economy’, Soviet Studies, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1983) pp. 546–60,
On this point, see Nancy Lubin, Labour and Nationality in Soviet Central Asia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984) pp. 197–9.
Juris Dreifelds, ‘Demographic Trends in Latvia’, Nationalities Papers, no. 1 (1984) pp. 60–1.
V. Stanley Vardys, ‘The Baltic Peoples’, Problems of Communism, vol. 16, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1967) pp. 62–3.
See Darrell Slider, ‘More Power to the Soviets? Reform and Local Government in the Soviet Union’, The British Journal of Political Science, vol. 16, no. 4 (October 1986) pp. 507–8.
Blair Ruble, ‘Romanov’s Leningrad’, Problems of Communism, vol. 32, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983) pp. 36–48.
Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, no. 3 (1985) pp. 42–9; Eko, no. 10 (1983) p. 85; the Novosibirsk experiment is discussed in Darrell Slider, ‘The Brigade System in Soviet Industry: An Effort to Restructure the Labour Force’, Soviet Studies, vol. 39, no. 3 (July 1987) pp. 388–405.
J. W. R. Parsons, ‘National Integration in Soviet Georgia’, Soviet Studies, vol. 34, no. 4 (October 1982) pp. 547–69.
See the introduction to Tönu Parming and Elmar Jarvesoo (eds.) A Case Study of a Soviet Republic: The Estonian SSR, (Colo.: Westview, 1978) pp. 3–6.
Zvi Gitelman, The Diffusion of Political Innovation: From Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union (Beverley Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1972) pp. 48–53.
John Loewenhardt, ‘The Tale of the Torch — Scientists-entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union’, Survey, vol. 20, no. 4 (Autumn 1974) pp. 113–21.
The most complete analysis of Akchi experiment is contained in Alexander Yanov, The Drama of the Soviet 1960s: A Lost Reform (Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1984).
See Robert L. Savage, ‘Diffusion Research Traditions and the Spread of Policy Innovations in a Federal System’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall 1985) pp. 14–16.
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Slider, D. (1989). Regional Aspects of Policy Innovation in the Soviet Union. In: Remington, T.F. (eds) Politics and the Soviet System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09820-0_7
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