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Much attention has been devoted in this volume to the top Soviet leader from Lenin to Gorbachev, but as T. H. Rigby pointed out in Chapter 2 (p. 5), it is really only in the period of ‘high Stalinism’ that the Soviet Union could meaningfully be regarded as a personal dictatorship, albeit one with a number of specific Communist features. Even then, other institutions, such as ministries, could wield substantial power, however helpless their individual heads might be vis-à- vis Stalin personally.
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Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership from FDR to Carter, 2nd edn. (New York: Wiley, 1980) p. 10.
See Archie Brown, ‘Andropov: Discipline and Reform?’ Problems of Communism, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, January-February 1983, pp. 18–31.
Valerie Bunce, Do New Leaders Make a Difference? Executive Succession and Public Policy under Capitalism and Socialism (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981).
Philip G. Roeder, ‘Do New Soviet Leaders Really Make a Difference? Rethinking the “Succession Connection”’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 79, No. 4, December 1985, pp. 958–76; and Valerie Bunce and Philip G. Roeder, ‘The Effects of Leadership Succession in the Soviet Union’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, March 1986, pp. 215–24.
Thane Gustafson and Dawn Mann, ‘Gorbachev’s Next Gamble’, Problems of Communism, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, July-August 1987, pp. 1–20, at p. 6.
Thane Gustafson and Dawn Mann, ‘Gorbachev’s First Year: Building Power and Authority’, Problems of Communism, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, May-June 1986, pp. 1–19, at pp. 1–2.
George Brown, In My Way (London: Pelican, 1972) p. 247.
Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979), p. 796.
Robert A. Dahl, Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) pp. 39–40.
Jean Blondel, Political Leadership: Towards a General Analysis (London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1987) p. 77.
Robert C. Tucker, Politics as Leadership (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1981) p. 3.
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Brown, A. (1989). Conclusions. 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_7
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