The language of communism: A commentary

Politics & Social Sciences

Waller, Michael

Politics & Government

Bodley Head

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

History

Markakis, John

Military

Routledge

Factional Politics and Democratization

This book addresses the nature of factionalism in parties that are created or rebuilt after a period of dictatorship. It maintains that, while party leaders often view factions in negative terms as divisive, factional behaviour can also be constructive. The volume brings together detailed case studies from post-authoritarian Spain, Greece and Portugal, from Turkey (where factionalism has hampered democratization) and from the post-communist states in Eastern Europe.

Gillespie, Richard

Nieto, Lourdes Lopez

The End of the Communist Power Monopoly

This work analyzes the internal weaknesses and the external pressures that led to Communism's terminal crisis in Europe. It systematically links the history of Euro-Communism and the Prague Spring to the momentous events of 1989 to 1991. Michael Waller focuses on the essential elements of the Communist monopoly of power-autarky and the closed frontier, central command planning, the leading role of the party, and the psychology of democratic centralism. He reveals the internal weakness of the monopoly and traces the long process of a decline in which the Communist parties of both Eastern and Western Europe played an important part. The positions of the Italian Communist Party and of the Czechoslovak reformers of the Prague Spring are presented as nodal points in a process that could not culminate until the monopoly in the Soviet Union itself faltered, at which point the monopoly's characteristic mechanisms rendered its final collapse inevitable.

Manchester Univ Pr

Russian politics today

This introductory text, written by an established authority on communist and post-communist politics, describes how Vladimir Putin has turned to those with backgrounds in the military and security structures to provide stability in today's Russian Federation, following the democratising reforms of Gorbachev and the ensuing instability of the Yeltsin presidency. Against the background of an increasing authoritarianism, which has restored features of the Soviet political system, it examines the attempts by social and economic groups to assert themselves against the state using embryonic democratic forms that fall far short of pluralism. The book's fourteen chapters offer an exceptionally broad coverage. It will appeal to first- and second-year students in higher education, but its deliberately accessible style will also make it attractive to the general reader.

Russian Politics Today

Russia

Manchester University Press

This introductory text, written by an established authority on communist and post-communist politics, describes how Vladimir Putin has turned to those with backgrounds in the military and security structures to provide stability in today's Russian Federation, following the democratising reforms of Gorbachev and the ensuing instability of the Yeltsin presidency. Against the background of an increasing authoritarianism, which has restored features of the Soviet political system, it examines the attempts by social and economic groups to assert themselves against the state using embryonic democratic forms that fall far short of pluralism. The book's fourteen chapters offer an exceptionally broad coverage. It will appeal to first- and second-year students in higher education, but its deliberately accessible style will also make it attractive to sixth-form students and the general reader.

Democratic centralism: An historical commentary

State University of New York Press

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The language of communism: A commentary

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

Factional Politics and Democratization

The End of the Communist Power Monopoly

The End of the Communist Power Monopoly

Russian Politics Today

Russian politics today

Democratic centralism: An historical commentary

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa