This book provides a general introduction to Soviet politics and examines the key features of party and governmental operations. It discusses such topics as Soviet economic organization and policy shortfalls and controversial areas such as religion, mixed nationalities, crime, the status of women and the family. Revised to bring the text up-to-date with the revolutionary changes of the Gorbachev era, this edition incorporates a new chapter on social problems relating to women, reproduction and youth. The glossary has been updated and appendices now provide texts of the USSR Constitution (including the extensive revisions which were made to it in late 1988) and the Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Contemporary Soviet Politics: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Barry, Donald D.

Barner-Barry, Carol

Politics & Government

Pearson College Div

A remarkable combination of political and psychological insights. Designed to be a comprehensive overview of political psychology integrated within a descriptive mode of the political process, this volume offers a valuable review and analysis of psychological concepts, principles, and theories as they apply to the understanding of political behavior. Major areas of the political process are examined from a psychological perspective, including participation, socialization, leadership, persuasion, negotiation, force, and decision making. The book stresses the importance of considering individual and group political behavior within specific situations or environments. In addition, it illuminates concepts and issues with examples from cultures around the world.

Psychological Perspectives on Politics

Rosenwein, Robert

PRENTICE/HALL

<p>THE POLITICS OF CHANGE explores the political, economic, and cultural issues involved in the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and the emergence of newly independent states. It examines Russia and other post-Soviet states as they try to develop their own identities as fifteen separate countries, as they try to develop their own market economies, and as they try to integrate themselves into an international system that is itself in flux. Rather than focus on institutions and individual policymakers, the book investigates the historic and cultural causes of these changes in the wake of the states' struggles to transform themselves from socialist, command economies into more democratic, market-oriented economies.</p>

The Politics of Change: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Union

Hody, Cynthia

Wadsworth Publishing

<p>A remarkable combination of political and psychological insights. Designed to be a comprehensive overview of political psychology integrated within a descriptive mode of the political process, this volume offers a valuable review and analysis of psychological concepts, principles, and theories as they apply to the understanding of political behavior. Major areas of the political process are examined from a psychological perspective, including participation, socialization, leadership, persuasion, negotiation, force, and decision making. The book stresses the importance of considering individual and group political behavior within specific situations or environments. In addition, it illuminates concepts and issues with examples from cultures around the world.</p>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Waveland Pr Inc.

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