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xv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Behavioral revolution and communist studies / Roger E. Kanet -- pt. 1. A survey of empirically oriented literature on communist policies: Comparing communist nations: prospects for an empirical approach / Paul Shoup -- pt. 2. Political elites in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Motivation, methodology, and communist ideology / Rita Mae Kelly and Frederic J. Fleron, Jr. -- Soviet elite participatory attitudes in the post-Stalin period / Milton Lodge -- Soviet Central Committee: an elite analysis / Michael P. Gehlen and Michael McBride -- Co-optation as a mechanism of adaption to change: the Soviet political leadership / Frederic J. Fleron, Jr. -- Public influence and educational policy in the Soviet Union / Joel J. Schwartz and William R. Keech -- Party careers: a case study of Bulgarian Central Committee members, 1962 / Carl Beck, Gerard A. Johnson, and J. Thomas McKechnie -- pt. 3. Policy implementation and bureaucracy in Russia and the Soviet Union: Study of the imperial ministry of internal affairs: the application of organization theory / Don Karl Rowney -- Role conflict and ambiguity in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union / Erik Hoffmann -- Law in the political development of a communist system: conceptualizing from the Soviet experience / Robert Sharlet -- pt. 4. Soviet Union in world affairs: Soviet elite perception of international regions: a research note / Charles Gati -- Effects of international conflict and détente on cohesion in the communist system / P. Terrence Hopmann -- Soviet relations with the developing states: an application of correlation analysis / Dan C. Heldman. |
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
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Soviet Union. |
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Politics and government. |
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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government.
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Eastern Europe. |
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Political science -- Research.
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Political science -- Research. |
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Political science -- Methodology.
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Political science -- Methodology. |
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Politique -- Recherche. |
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Politique -- Méthodologie. |
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URSS -- Politique et gouvernement. |
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Europe de l'Est -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945- |
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