The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)

In this book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. This is the first book to follow the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them. It is an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure, showing how Gorbachev's reforms and the new political forces which grew up in their wake created disunity and fragmentation which ultimately led to the collapse of the most powerful single-party state in history.Graeme Gill is the author of 'The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521465373 and ISBN 0521465370.