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The Soviet political system has been far from unchanging over the first seventy years of its existence, but a relatively constant feature has been the concentration of a great deal of power in the hands of the central leadership in Moscow. The distribution of power and influence within that leadership has, however, altered very considerably over time. The topics examined by this book include the varying roles played at different periods by the individual top leader (who for much the greatest part of the Soviet era has been the party General Secretary), the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the broader membership of the Central Committee, the Presidium of the Council of Ministers and individual senior ministers.
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© 1989 Archie Brown
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Brown, A. (1989). Introduction. In: Brown, A. (eds) Political Leadership in the Soviet Union. St. Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20262-1_1
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